Start Order Strategy

Start a multi-bracket trading strategy.

This endpoint is used with a WebSocket. You can create any number of brackets and add them to brackets field on the params object as a JSON string.

const URL = 'wss://demo.tradovateapi.com/v1/websocket'

const params = {
    entryVersion: {
        orderQty: 1,
        orderType: "Market"
    },
    brackets: [{
        qty: 1,
        profitTarget: -30,
        stopLoss: 15,
        trailingStop: false
    }]
}

const body = {
    accountId: myAcctId,
    accountSpec: name,
    symbol: 'MESM1',
    action: 'Sell',
    orderStrategyTypeId: 2, //2 is 'multibracket', we currently only offer this strategy but more may exist in the future.
    params: JSON.stringify(params)
}

const mySocket = new WebSocket(URL)

//authorize socket using your access token
mySocket.onopen = function() {
    mySocket.send(`authorize\n0\n\n${accessToken}`)
}

mySocket.send(`orderstrategy/startorderstrategy\n4\n\n${JSON.stringify(body)}`)

For more details about working with advanced order types, see placeOrder, placeOCO, and placeOSO.