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Looks good thanks mike, I was talking to someone else on their live chat link who pointed me in the same direction.
Will have to work out how to set it up. I, like you, change the amounts per trade but like a standard default set up so I know when I enter I am covered on the stop side straight away. With NT its easy to just drag the stops and targets to where I want them!
Here is another video playing with OCO Trader plug-in for automatic target and stop placement. I like how it can calculate in percentages of position size, that is fantastic. It's quite simple to use, much more so than NinjaTrader's ATM which always confused me for some reason.
Unfortunately my practice trades were losers in this example, lol, but I was just playing with large order quantity to see how it broke up lots at multiple levels.
There is also a trail feature which is straightforward.
I've been playing with the X-Trader workspace. I am liking it quite a bit. So far I am finding the reporting tools to be really easy to understand. For some reason I always had a bit of trouble with Ninja's reporting toolset, I can't put my finger on it but following the sequence of a complex trade was never easy. It seems a lot easier in X-Trader.
I also really like the slider on the DOM (above the Trade Out button, I showed it briefly in last video). Very nice! It lets you zoom out on the DOM by collapsing price levels, so I can quickly set targets further away without having to scroll the DOM!
Also, the recenter feature of the DOM is smart. If I am in the middle of placing a target or stop, it won't recenter on me.
There is still some DOM functionality I was hoping for but that I haven't figured out how to do, or if its even possible.
Let's say I am in a long position and my stop and target is set for this long position.
Now, I want to have a buy stop a few ticks beyond my current profit target --- a level where I want to re-enter the market, or add to a position.
I wish I could set stops and targets ahead of time for that order, but apparently you cannot. This is something I do somewhat regularly so I was hoping it could do it. I could use OCO Trader, but it's just cumbersome to try and quickly calculate the exact tick offset manually. I know where stop and target should be at a price level, I just wish I could do some sort of nested OCO group, like for X-Trader to know that this buy stop is 'group 2' and that when I follow it up with an OCO for my target/stop loss orders, that is also 'group 2' and should only execute after I am filled.
