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Chuck B
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Re: Positive (profitable) slippage

Post by Chuck B »

Mark Johnson wrote:On Friday one of my systems placed a stop order with my broker to sell August 08 crude at "the blue line", 125.09. The market traded there but my order was not filled. In theory (and in Blox), my order WAS filled. So today I placed a market order to "fix up the discrepancy", selling DRT. I got filled at 129.25 (!!) which is 4.16 handles, four hundred and sixteen ticks, better than my stop price. Positive slippage: woo hoo.
Mark,

I'm sorry, I can't follow how this worked. Did the broker have discretion on the order? If it was placed in the exchange engine, there will likely never be a case where the price trades a stop order trigger and the engine fails to follow through on order execution. I see it traded well under your stop price early in the morning Friday, but during the US daytime hours, the low in CLQ08 was well above your value.

The second part is that you apparently waited well into today's session to place the sell order since it didn't clear 129 until around lunchtime (NY time) today.

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Post by RedRock »

The market giveth - and the market taketh away... Last night filled an exit order 20+ tics beyond intention on a one min wonder spike in the Globex AD. Cash traded nowhere close to this opportunistic (for some entity, ill wager) maelstrom. Exchange says trades fair, just, and will stand. P lease.

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Post by Mark Johnson »

Hi Chuck, it's no mystery when you consider that this is one guy trading 5 systems on 100 markets each using daily bar data. When you write out the Occam's Razor list of likely explanations for Friday's non-fill, the one at the top of the list turns out to be the right answer. Same goes for Monday: when you make a second list of likely explanations for that fill, the one at the top of that list is right.

Best, MJ
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Post by ladadriver »

Mark Johnson wrote:Hi Chuck, it's no mystery when you consider that this is one guy trading 5 systems on 100 markets each using daily bar data. When you write out the Occam's Razor list of likely explanations for Friday's non-fill, the one at the top of the list turns out to be the right answer. Same goes for Monday: when you make a second list of likely explanations for that fill, the one at the top of that list is right.

Best, MJ
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