Trading on the chart

Stop and target on the chart

Hover your position on the chart and three small buttons appear under it: BE, TP and SL. Grab TP or SL and drag it to the level you want. While you drag, the label shows the dollars, the points and the R. Let go and it’s set, with no confirmation, and Undo is there for five seconds.

• The labels show up as soon as Vest has your position, and when you get in with the card they’re there the moment you press, marked SENDING.
• BE moves your stop to entry plus 5% of the open profit, so a breakeven stop still locks in a little. It never moves a stop backwards.
• The labels sit just right of the latest candle, the chart keeps room for them while you’re in a position, and they work on a regular or a log price scale.

Stop orders

Vest’s ticket has market, limit and scale orders, but no stop order to get in on a break, so the card has one. Press STOP, then click the chart: above the price it’s a buy stop, below a sell stop, for the size on the card.

When the price touches it, it sends a market order through the card, once. Better Vest holds the stop in your tab, so keep the tab open. It never fires on a gap: if the price went past it during a reload, it’s marked PASSED and nothing is sent.

Limit orders

LIMIT works the same way, but the order is a real limit order on Vest. Press it, then click the chart: below the price a buy limit, above a sell limit. The price snaps to the tick as you aim, one click places it through Vest’s own ticket, and a price the market already reached is refused.

SL/TP on Stop & Limit decides whether stop and limit orders carry the card’s stop and target. It’s off by default. The E and Q hotkeys follow the same switch.

Trailing stop

TRAIL, on the Execute card, moves your stop up behind the price. Set when it starts (after so many points or dollars in profit) and how far behind the best price it follows, or press NOW to start at once.

The stop only ever tightens. Drag it back by hand and trailing turns off for that position, so it never fights you.

Auto breakeven

AUTO BE moves your stop to breakeven once a position is a set number of points or dollars in profit, once per position.

Cancel all orders

Hover FLAT and a Cancel all orders button rises above it. One press cancels every order you have waiting on that account, on every market: your stop orders and your limit orders. Your TP and SL stay, and so do your positions. It uses Vest’s own Cancel buttons.