Do you use Chart Trader in NinjaTrader and when you right click in the chart to enter a “Buy Limit Order” or “Sell Limit Order” and you get an additional box pop up asking you to verify order size and click the check box? I personally do not like this extra step in order entry. It’s not necessary and just adds another hoop. Keep reading for the following steps to find out how to remove this extra box.
First thing to do is make sure you have “Confirm order placement” check box is “unchecked”.
In the NinjaTrader Control Center, go to Tools->Option->General Tab-> Confirm order placement
The next steps are to make sure your “Chart Trader” properties are set up properly.
The main step is to make sure that your “Stop Limit Offset” is set from “Off” to at least a value of "1"
Follow the steps in the pictures:
Right click anywhere on your “Chart Trader” to access the “Chart Trader Properties”
Once you have opened “Chart Trader Properties” make sure to set "Stop Limit Offset from “Off” to at least a value of “1”
To this:
Bonus tip: Set “Use stop market for stop loss order” to “True”
This is a little of a safety valve in case the market runs really fast and blow past your stop it will submit your stop as a Market Order and not a Limit Order
Below are the various definitions for the different properties copied out of NinjaTrader “Help”
I hope you found this helpful and saved you some time!
Happy Trading everyone!
-Christopher