Help creating hotkeys for OCA orders

[JimGiles]

I only trade NQ and micros off 1 minute charts so prices on my hotkeys can be locked in for me.  I created hotkeys to create just a market buy and market sell.  I then want to create a OCA hotkey after that candle has closed to stop me out at 2 pts below low of last candle and partial profit (1/2 position) above 10pts for buy markets, and opposite for my sell market orders.  What I have works for my stop but not my limit.  My limit order doesn't execute at all (See pictures)

  I don't understand offsetting the limit order which is something I think I have to do.  Can someone please help.

Afterwards after either getting stopped out or getting 10pts on first position I want last half position at breakeven which I will move accordingly as price hopefully moves in my favor.  However, I get a price variation error with my broker when executing this hotkey.  I need it to round to the nearest tick (quarter pt) I think. 

I'd appreciate any help.  Thanks

 

[Jerry Medved]

with conditional orders, usually the secondary leg prices are specified as offsets from the first.  So whatever the price specified on the first leg, if you do +2 for the second leg, when it is actually sent, it will send as first leg price+2.

barhigh- should be BarHigh.

price variation error - what are the exact values?

[JimGiles]

Hey Jerry, when I put in a regular limit order instead of an OCA using the "pospaid +/- 10" it works fine except it gives me the same error message on the limit order is it does on the breakeven stop I have.  See pictures.  On the OCA order instead of giving me an error will it just exercises the portion of the order it can which is the stop +/- 2 at the bar high/low and ignore the other part?

 

  I don't know if its because I'm testing on IB's paper trade account but my position is never an actual quarterly amount which is what I am guessing is throwing off the system.  Even though it shows I filled both contracts on my market order at 16,047.75 my position paid is showing 16,048.06.  And IB is looking for orders like 16,048.00 or 16048.25 not 16,048.06.  Am I thinking of that right?  Is it including commissions as my "pospaid" and that's what making it such an odd number?

 

Thank you Jerry.

[Jerry Medved]

21 hours ago, JimGiles said:

On the OCA order instead of giving me an error will it just exercises the portion of the order it can which is the stop +/- 2 at the bar high/low and ignore the other part?

I checked here, with PosPaid and BarHigh, not offsets. Worked fine.  If it executes stuff, send me the log so I can check

Go to FILE / HELP => Send Log/Settings to support menu (from Dashboard or Portfolio)

And add this Post’s URL in the comment along with what order was sent/executed

as for the issue with the issue with the price variation, I need to see what we can do about that. Need to round to nearest tick