The order ticket

Sizing an order from its stop, what the pre-trade check is telling you, and what every refusal means.

The ticket computes nothing itself. Every number on it - the money an order risks, the volume that risk sizes to, the Buffer it would eat, the pre-trade check - is priced by the same engine that will judge the order when it arrives, so what you read and what happens cannot disagree.

Composing an order

1. Side, then Market, Limit or Stop. Switching side mirrors your stop and target rather than clearing them, so the distances you chose survive.
2. Stop loss. Required. It is what the order is sized from and what your open risk is measured to.
3. How much to risk - a chip (0.25%, 0.5%, 1%, 2%), the slider, or Max, which is whatever is left of your Buffer after the Reserve. Volume is solved from that, or you can type lots and read the risk back.

Basic and Pro detail

A switch that shows more or less of the ticket. It is not a plan: every account sees the same switch and gets the same thing from it. The naming collision with the pricing tiers is the design's and it is worth being loud about.

What the trigger control does

Touch means your stop fires the moment price reaches it - the ordinary stop, resting at your broker. Bar close adds a second level inside it that Propcockpit watches: if a candle closes through that level, the position is closed early, and if it does not, your broker-side stop is still there. It is a Pro capability.

The disclosure beside it is owed rather than decorative: your risk is still measured to the broker-side stop, and the account is exposed to that wider level for the length of a candle.

Reading a refusal

Every refusal names what was in the way, in money. “This order risks $1,297, over your $1,000 cap for a single order” is a sentence you can act on; “risk check failed” is not, so the ticket does not say it. A refusal from your broker rather than from your rules says so too, with the venue's own code beside the Support reference for the conversation that follows.

Confirmations

Past 1.5% of the account, the ticket asks a second time and restates the order in words. Nothing about that is configurable.