Could’ve been a lot better, could’ve been a lot worse
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What a day for the short orders to be screwing up! Ugh! At least a few went through. It’s still rejecting a lot of our short orders and we don’t know why. We put in the function to convert the number error that we were seeing in the log to a text message and all it displayed was “Unknown error.” That doesn’t help much.
What I didn’t realize is that when these trades weren’t going through, the ATS thinks they went through and were stopped out. So, it ended up “striking out” and closing down for the day early, because it thought it was getting stopped out of all of these trades. Unfortunately for us, these missed trades would have gone on to nice profits. And who knows what else the damn thing would’ve shorted later on in the day, had it not quit.
Tonight I have to at least fix it so that it doesn’t think unopened orders are stopped out.
My goal is to get the damn thing fixed by March 1st, so that we can have a full month of trading without problems. I’m eager to get real trade data to look over, so that I can see what parts of the system to tweak.
