I'd rather not have a strategy manage both entries and exits, since while my entry criteria can be coded, my brain can much more efficiently filter out all the market conditions that the code is not accounting for.
I'd like to be able to put an order in via the DOM or chart trader, and then have a strategy that can pick up the order and manage the exit.
It seems like there should be a way to point to an exit-strategy in ATM.
The only solution I've come up with so far is to have the strategy kick off the order immediately when it's activated.
Is there a more elegant solution out there? The strategy needs to be able to identify the existing order somehow.
Also, the fact that strategies and chart trader disable each other is a nuisance.
I was tempted to PM vvhg, as I saw a thread where he talked about creating a "shadow strategy" but I thought this discussion might benefit others.