scalptastic said:

hi support; how does the cTrader server side handle the limit orders?

do they get routed to the ECN straight away? if so; how does it decide what Liquidity provider to route to?

PS: I read in a forum that MT4 server keeps limit orders in the server side; and once the market reach that level; they send Fill or Kill order to the ECN / Exchange.

 

I think in MT4 is even worse, i.e. you cant really send Limit to LP, its re-translated to markets (!!!). I.e. slippage can occur on Limits, which is rediqulous. Which is not the case with cTrader (?).

Had a talk with LiquidMarkets, they say Limit can be executed at a price or better. NOT worse like in mt4.

If the above is correct, I am totally cool to keep limit at cTrader level (at least no margin will be taken)

Error is an Enum type and you can use it to identify which was the error.

For example you can use this statement:

            switch (error.Code)

            {

                    case ErrorCode.BadVolume: Print("Bad Volume");

                    break;

                    case ErrorCode.TechnicalError:Print("Technical Error");

                    break;

                    case ErrorCode.NoMoney: Print("No Money");

                    break;

                    case ErrorCode.Disconnected: Print("Disconnected");

                    break;

                    case ErrorCode.MarketClosed: Print("Market Closed");

                    break;

            }

If the error is technical then there is a problem with ModifyPosition.

We will add more event handlers very soon, including one to handle the position having been modified. Stay tuned!

 

 

The event OnError is triggered if the operation is not successful.

e.g.

protected override void OnError(Error error)

{

Print("There has been an Error");

 

}

 

scalptastic said:

hi guys; just had a chance to demo the cTrader platform. it is great; and user friendly.

is there an API to connect to cAlgo or cTrader from external apps; such as Java or C++?

i have a legacy algo app that I need to keep running for the moment; while exploring the new platform.

 

thanks.

 

This is beyond our scope at the moment but you may implement such functionality with cAlgo using the System.NET namespace.