Order placement failure

Varun_22

I am running algo to download prices of option chain at 9:30. Then I check for price of selected options to cross trigger point. On cross of trigger, I place market buy & SL order. The prices of selected options are refreshed every 30 seconds. While the prices are loading/ refreshing without any issue. When trigger gets met lets say after 2 hours, the order placement does not work

Syntax for order placement is correct as I tested same by putting in a fresh code & executed. Would request help to understand that am I missing something

Varun_22

I am facing this issue in Zerodha Kite API

rakeshr

the order placement does not work

Is it throwing any error/exception? Can you paste here the complete error message?

Varun_22

This is message log I am getting in & around order placement failure

DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://api.kite.trade:443 "GET /quote/ltp?i=NFO%3ANIFTY22N1718400CE HTTP/1.1" 200 None
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.kite.trade:443
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://api.kite.trade:443 "POST /orders/regular HTTP/1.1" 400 154
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.kite.trade:443
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://api.kite.trade:443 "POST /orders/regular HTTP/1.1" 400 154
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.telegram.org:443

sujith

You seem to be getting an input exception. You can enabled debug logs and check the exception message.

Varun_22

Apologies I am a novice coder, please help me as to what is input exception. May be I can resolve this at my end with that information
Also how do I enable debug logs

sujith

@Varun_22,
You can checkout pykiteconnect here.

Varun_22

Thanks will try to run it tomorrow on debug mode when market opens

Have put below command I am using for market order, which seems to be generating input exception. Request if you can look & suggest if there are any obvious errors

pe_order_id = kite.place_order(tradingsymbol= PE_ticker, exchange= kite.EXCHANGE_NFO, transaction_type= kite.TRANSACTION_TYPE_BUY, quantity= 50, variety= kite.VARIETY_REGULAR, product= kite.PRODUCT_NRML, order_type= kite.ORDER_TYPE_MARKET)

sujith

Market orders are not allowed for F&O, you will have to place limit order at LTP.

Varun_22

Thanks for pointing this out. Is my SL order not going through since market order wasnt being placed. Have put documentation for SL order below

pe_limitorder_id = kite.place_order(tradingsymbol= PE_ticker, exchange= kite.EXCHANGE_NFO, transaction_type= kite.TRANSACTION_TYPE_SELL, quantity= 50, variety= kite.VARIETY_REGULAR, product= kite.PRODUCT_NRML, order_type= kite.ORDER_TYPE_SL, price= PE_Stoploss, trigger_price= PE_Stoploss+.2)

sujith

For SL, once trigger is hit, it becomes a limit order. It should be fine. It will be a problem for SL-M order.

sujith

And also make sure that all the price and trigger price are modulus of tick size.

Varun_22

Thanks for the clarification. Wanted to check on the point that is stop loss error not getting placed since there is no outstanding quantity or the documentation shared above has some input error

Varun_22

Below is the error message I am getting. But issue I have is the same ticker is being used for price quote, it's working fine

rakeshr

The instrument you are placing an order for has either expired or doesn't exit

Check for extra spaces in the trading symbol and exchange name.

Varun_22

I think I am giving correct ticker, pl take a look at top of screen where I have printed the ticker which I am passing & same error is being generated as pointed above

rakeshr

NFO:NIFTY22NOV18300CE

You are sending the wrong trading symbol, it should only be NIFTY22NOV18300CE. You can fetch trading symbol detail from the instrument list.

Varun_22

Thanks, it is working now