This is an experimental indicator that can enter and exit live positions. Use entirely at your own risk and with extreme caution! You have been warned, so don't blame me! I will not accept liability for anything!
By now most of you probably have figured out my love for floating windows:sarcastic:.
This is a little window with a few buttons that allows you to enter and exit trades:
Most stuff is pretty self-explanatory. The only thing worth mentioning is the Close button, which will first cancel all orders for the selected Instrument-Account combination and then close any open position for the selected Instrument-Account combination. Edit: Is now default NT behaviour when there is an open position, if flat it will cancel all working orders for that Instrument-Account combination.
Account, Instrument and Quantity are bootstrapped from ChartTrader, so if you want to change them, you will have to do it there. Edit: Now has dropdowns that always have the same value selected as ChartTrader, that means no matter where you change it the other one will also reflect that change. For that reason vvMiniTradePanel will enable ChartTrader when it starts up. You can hide, disable, show or enable it later. ChartTrader has to stay enabled, a warning will be shown if it is disabled.
The Account can also be set manually, however, Quantity and Instrument will still be bootstrapped from ChartTrader. Scrapped that, too confusing.
In terms of size, location and some other settings it is quite configurable.
Please only download if you understand the risks of using such an indicator and accept that you will use it entirely at your own risk!
Download is here:
Changelog Archive:
21.Jan.2013 v1.1
Added Position display.
Fixed some minor button alignment and size issues.
21.Jan.2013 v1.2
Fixed a serialization bug.
Removed manual account option as this was not congruent with the rest and was prone to lead to confusion.
Improved label alignment.
29.Jan.2013 v1.3
Completely reworked indicator:
Works on 32 and 64 bit, no use of ATI.
Completely bootstrapped from ChartTrader.
ATM strategies work now.
Added Buttons for scaling in and out.
All settings are taken from ChartTrader, so ChartTrader must always be enabled.
Scale Quantity can be set in Preferences.
29.Jan.2013 v1.4
Account changes were not picked up correctly, fixed.
30.Jan.2013 v1.5
Added option to select button action Buy Ask/Bid and Sell Ask/Bid.
v1.6
Added Break even button, this will tighten all Stop or StopLimit orders where the name starts with "Stop" to BE+offset (can be set in Parameters)
Added Explode button, this will explode orders sitting on the same price level, it will NOT split orders, see thread for details. Either away from last price or toward last price.
Added option to switch some buttons on/off.
v1.7
Improved behaviour of explode button:
Explode away can now be selected for stops and limits independently.
Left mouse click will explode Limit orders, right click will explode Stop orders.
v1.8
Further improved the explode function, corrected behaviour so that now closest target is taken off after explode on scale out.
31.Jan.2013 v1.9
Added Offset setting for BE Stops.
Disables the scale out button when there is an active ATM but it is not selected, this is to prevent incorrect bracketing with a new ATM or obsolete stops/targets when none is selected.
Added dropdown for ATM selection, no matter where (MiniTradePanel or ChartTrader) you change it, the other one will change too.
v2.0
Fixed serialization bug.