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Pending Orders Are Eating Up My Buying Power In My Multichart Strategy
I am using Interactive Brokers as my broker and MultiCharts as my charting and automated trading platform, data is IQFeed.
I have a strategy that if it finds a "setup" will issue a long order and a short order. These orders may or may not be filled, depending if price crosses the trigger level for long or short. When one order is filled (either long or short), it cancels the other pending order.
The problem is, each pending order "eats up" my buying power. If I have this strategy attached to multiple stocks, then when a setup is found for each stock, it issues both the the long and short order - which may or may not be filled in 1 direction only -- but it eats up my buying power for both orders the moment a setup on each chart is detected.
This limitation makes it not possible for me to attach a live strategy to many stocks as my buying power is eaten up, regardless if I actually enter the market, because the stop or limit order (unfilled) eats up my buying power.
Any ideas how I can make it such that pending orders dont eat up my buying power?
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
Oh, ok that makes sense, but I would like to have my order submitted PRIOR to it hitting such that my order wont get in late and I get a worse price....
Therefore here are some ideas...
1) I better put limits on these orders...
2) When price gets CLOSE to my entry I should submit the order,
3) when price is not close, the order will not be submitted, and therefore if price was close and the order existed before, it will not be resubmitted, so the order will be cancelled
Oh, ok that makes sense, but I would like to have my order submitted PRIOR to it hitting such that my order wont get in late and I get a worse price....
Therefore here are some ideas...
1) I better put limits on these orders...
2) When price gets CLOSE to my entry I should submit the order,
3) when price is not close, the order will not be submitted, and therefore if price was close and the order existed before, it will not be resubmitted, so the order will be cancelled