Trading and Orders

When you call one of the order methods to place an order, LEAN performs pre-order checks to ensure that the order meets some requirements and uses the last known price to check you have enough capital. To see the requirements of each order, see the Requirements section of the documentation for the order types and the Orders section of your brokerage model. If you can place the order, LEAN creates Order and OrderTicket objects. The order ticket is sent to your brokerage. As the brokerage processes your order, it returns another order ticket and it's compared against the order to see if the order is satisfied. Orders are asynchronous in live trading, so if you want to change an order, you must request it with the order ticket. Order changes are not guaranteed since your order may fill by the time brokerage receives the request.

LEAN supports the following order types:

• Market
• Limit
• Limit if touched
• Stop market
• Stop limit
• Trailing stop
• Market on open
• Market on close
• Combo market
• Combo limit
• Combo leg limit
• Option exercise

The SymbolProperties are a property of the Security object. LEAN uses some of the SymbolProperties to prevent invalid orders, and to calculate order quantities for a given target.

SymbolProperties objects have the following properties:

To get the SymbolProperties, use the property on the Security object.

var symbolProperties = Securities["BTCUSD"].SymbolProperties;
var lotSize = symbolProperties.LotSize;
var minimumOrderSize = symbolProperties.MinimumOrderSize;
var minimumPriceVariation = symbolProperties.MinimumPriceVariation;

symbol_properties = self.Securities["BTCUSD"].SymbolProperties
lot_size = symbol_properties.LotSize
minimum_order_size = symbol_properties.MinimumOrderSize
minimum_price_variation = symbol_properties.MinimumPriceVariation

LEAN uses the MinimumPriceVariation to round the LimitPrice, StopPrice, and the TriggerPrice.

The quote currency is the currency you must give the seller to buy an asset. For currency trades, the quote currency is the currency ticker on the right side of the currency pair. For other types of assets, the quote currency is usually USD, but the quote currency for India Equities is INR. To get the quote currency of a Security, use the QuoteCurrency property.

var aaplQuoteCurrency = Securities["AAPL"].QuoteCurrency; // USD
var btcusdtQuoteCurrency = Securities["BTCUSDT"].QuoteCurrency; // USDT

aapl_quote_currency = self.Securities["AAPL"].QuoteCurrency # USD
btcusdt_quote_currency = self.Securities["BTCUSDT"].QuoteCurrency # USDT

The QuoteCurrency is a Cash object, which have the following properties:

You can use the ConversionRate property to calculate the value of the minimum price movement in the account currency

var cfd = Securities["SG30SGD"];
var quoteCurrency = cfd.QuoteCurrency; // SGD
var contractMutiplier = cfd.SymbolProperties.ContractMultiplier;
var minimumPriceVariation = cfd.SymbolProperties.MinimumPriceVariation;

// Value of a pip in account currency
var pip = minimumPriceVariation * contractMutiplier * quoteCurrency.ConversionRate;

cfd = self.Securities["SG30SGD"]
quote_currency = cfd.QuoteCurrency # SGD
contract_mutiplier = cfd.SymbolProperties.ContractMultiplier
minimum_price_variation = cfd.SymbolProperties.MinimumPriceVariation

# Value of a pip in account currency
pip = minimum_price_variation * contract_mutiplier * quote_currency.ConversionRate

Reality models make backtests as realistic as possible to how the strategy would perform in live trading.

If a split event occurs before your order is filled, the unfilled portion of the order is adjusted automatically, where its quantity is multiplied by the split factor and the limit/stop/trigger price (if any) is divided by the split factor.

In live trading, orders fill asynchronously. We send your order to the API of your brokerage and wait for their response to update the state of your algorithm and portfolio. The timing of live order fills doesn't depend on the resolution of your security subscriptions. When your order fills, the fill price and fee is set by your brokerage. You can add event handlers to your algorithm to monitor the brokerage connection and brokerage messages.

In backtesting, the trade fill timing depends on the resolution of your security subscription. For example, if you subscribe to a security with minute resolution data, the algorithm only receives data in one-minute time slices. As a result, the fill model can only evaluate if the order should fill on a minute-by-minute frequency.