Disliked{quote} And that's what I'm trying to explain ... where that level is..depends on the close of the candle, which differs from tick chart to tick chart. So if I place a buy limit order described by Harmonic1976's entry method and my candle closed lower than yours than my order is placed lower than yours. It's harder for me to get a fill because price has to go lower. And that's what I meant in my previous post that I was having trouble with getting filled. Because probably my tick chart wasn't accurate when I was backtesting and I was placing...Ignored
If the exchange sets the price of an instrument at 18800 then unless your broker is filtering data which should not happen on a Futures broker because of the laws then every futures brokers chart should hit the same price at the same time. The candles open and close will not affect and is irrelevant for limit orders.
Am I stubbornly wrong here? Correct me if I am wrong. If someone knows it differently please let us know.
This happens all thew time on the Forex side because brokers do manipulate price all of the time and filter it as well. They are dirty and I don't play those games anymore. The 6E Futures is the EURUSD and you will see a difference in price from a futures broker to a Forex broker because of this.
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