ATR Ordering

Lock in Risk per trade. No matter the volatility.

The moment your order fills, ATR Ordering reads the market's actual volatility, sets your Stop and Target, and sizes your position – so the trade never risks more than the dollar amount you've set, whether the market is calm or violent, whether you're at the screen or not.

Volatility doesn't wait for anyone to be at the desk

ATR on the same instrument can sit at 8 ticks one day and 18 the next. A fixed Stop – say, always 10 ticks – ends up too tight on a volatile day and too loose on a quiet one.

For a Stop to reflect real volatility, it has to be measured at the exact moment the order fills – not when a pending order is placed, but when price actually reaches it.

Doing this by hand means pulling the ATR at that moment, converting it to tick distance, working out dollar value per tick for the instrument, adding commission, and only then arriving at a contract count that keeps the trade within a set max loss – a chain with several places for error to creep in, especially under the pressure of a live fill.

For a trader who sets a pending order and steps away, that pressure compounds: getting back to the screen at the right second just to start this chain, before the market moves further.

Stay on plan. Even when volatility changes.

A trading plan holds up not because its Stop stays the same in every condition, but because its dollar risk per trade stays the same regardless of the condition. When the Stop moves with ATR and position size moves opposite it to hold the risk constant, a trader keeps discipline without giving up responsiveness to the market.

ATR Ordering gives traders a faster, more consistent way to carry that trade plan into execution – across both Market Orders and Pending Orders. Instead of working through each calculation when a setup appears, a trader only needs to define 3 settings in advance:

From there, the position size adjusts with the Stop and the Target follows the chosen Reward automatically – without that, every shift in volatility means going through the math again, one setting at a time.

A single click on the chart is enough to set the trade in motion. The sizing accounts for commission as well, not just the Stop distance – so when the Stop gets hit, the real loss lands close to the Max Loss set, not beyond it.

One fill. Three decisions handled automatically.

Put your trading plan on autopilot

Live execution in action

See how ATR Ordering evaluates volatility upon execution, sets Stop and Target brackets, and sizes contract volume in real time.

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