Hi Mechtrader,
Looks like slippages are eating away too much of your money(close to 40%). any thoughts on limiting it? Are you placing the orders at Market price or higher bid price?
Ya, I was also shocked to see that kind of slippage ! What could be the reasons for such huge slippage value ?
Could it be possible that there is some lag in the datafeed etc., such that till the time the trade trigger gets generated in mechtrader VPS, the real market might have already move away from that price, thereby causing the slippage.
I experienced such issue with my esignal datafeed few years back, when there was considerable lag in the price being showed in the tick charts based on esignal, and the actual price in the broker terminal where I was punching in the orders. It noticed it to be even 3-4 seconds late sometime, although esignal is a professional and authorized data feed.
I have no idea, if that could be the case with mechtrader as well, but I am just guessing.
Hopefully, he has done proper research in this direction and is aware of the real reasons behind such huge slippage.
Thanks and regards