Long and short orders netted into a single order on Paper Trading!
Hello, I'm starting my journey in this field with TradingView.. Today I've encountered an issue where I wanted to scalp a bit of a the retracement while I already had a nice short that has been running for 2 hours. When I executed the Long Buy on the retracement start, I was surprised that both my short and long positions are now netted into 1 single order with no way to break them apart.
This is Paper Trading, you can change this setting internally, I'm not sure about the logic of netting opposite trades together. I would understand netting 2 shorts or 2 longs together, sure! But opposite ones? It was just confusing to me as i started researching on how to do it inside the app itself only to find out that I need to create another account with another trading platform that offers a simulated environment that has a setting to disable netting so I can link that account back to TradingView's broker choice.
Is there any specific reason behind this? Will the disable netting feature be added in the near future?
I also wanted to see if there's a feature that exists in splitting the TP or SL lines into 2 lines by holding a keyboard key? For example holding the shift key to split the TP line? Or is there any other way to do, easier than preemptively doing it from the trade tab before applying the order or doing it later on manually through the same tab?