Hello!

I just wanted to suggest an order type that would be HUGELY beneficial to traders. A moving/sliding Bracket Order. In other words, if I want to get short with a Bracket Order stop below a moving trendline...lets day it comes in at 5550, and I want to get short 10 tics below at 5540, and risk 10 tics back above at 5560, and I want my target to be 60 tics below wherever the trendline comes in. This all works great if the Trendline does not move. But what if it moves upward 3 tics per/hour? Then the following hour the trendline comes in at 5553, the sell stop below is now 13 tics below, not 10, and the risk stop is now 7 tics above, not 10.

The inability to do this, prevents me from making a number of trades, because I don't want to have to deal with going back and forth and changing things every hour, especially if this is an order that might be filled at 2:00am or something. But if you could add this functionality, This would be a HUGE selling point for the CQG platform functionality, and would increase order flow through the platform. I am ramping up my client base, and would love to push the CQG platform with this funcationality in it. Additionally, it will save traders a LOT of time. I can put my orders in, know they are adjusting to the market for entry, loss stop and profit target, and be able to breathe easier.

Please let me know your thoughts and if you want any clarification. Thank you! Love CQG!

When markets move fast and a product has a small tick size it is impossible to keep up with the price action in the DOMTrader. For example, if I were to trade the RBOB Gasoline futures it is nearly impossible to keep up with even small moves. The DOMTrader should have the option to display more than one tick per level.

So for the RBOB example, with one tick per level the prices displayed might be 1.1798, 1.1799, 1.1800, 1.1801 and 1.1802. If the ticks per level were set to 5 those prices would be 1.1790, 1.1795, 1.1800, 1.1805 and 1.1810. With this feature the DOMTrader will be much more useful. See the attached screenshot for an example of what I had in mind.

Entering a spread like APM7-2EPM7 into a DOMTrader window will show prices in increments of whole numbers (1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, etc). To change this to increments of 0.5 or other value you can do the following:
1) In the DOMTrader window right-click on the tab at the top where you see APM7-2EPM7 and select "Create QFormula".
2) Right click on that tab again and select “Edit QFormula”. This will open the Formula window.
3) In the formula window, highlight the formula (which should show as SPREAD(APM7-2*EPM7).
4) Click on "Setup" at the bottom of the window and change the Tick Size from Auto to 0.5
5) Click OK

I have some strategies that frequently trade on the same bar. Most of these trades are fine, but in back-testing, I have reason to believe that some small number of them are trading in an impossible order. For instance, in a long trade, the price might enter the bar at an intermediate value, fall to the low that meets my sell condition, rise to a high that meets my buy condition, and then exit to the next bar. In back-testing, this would show up as a completed trade, since both my sell and my buy condition are met within the bar. Is there a way of ruling out such impossible trades when back-testing?

At first I thought that the HiLo1 function solved the problem, but it will reject single-bar trades even where the trade can be completed. For example, in the trade described above, if the price rises from the low to the high that triggers a buy, and then falls back down to the low that triggers the sale, conditioning the sale on high before low with HiLo1 would block the sale.

Is there a way to insist that sales come after buys on within-bar long positions, or before them on within-bad long positions?