Can't place market order.

pavni

I am trying to place market order ot MCX SILVERM21FEBFUT but it's placing LIMIT order.

Code is as below:

kite.place_order(tradingsymbol="SILVERM21FEBFUT",
exchange=kite.EXCHANGE_MCX,
transaction_type=kite.TRANSACTION_TYPE_SELL,
quantity=2,
order_type=kite.ORDER_TYPE_MARKET,
product=kite.PRODUCT_NRML,
variety=kite.VARIETY_REGULAR)

response to this code is as below:

{'placed_by': hashed,
'order_id': hashed,
'exchange_order_id': hashed,
'parent_order_id': None,
'status': 'COMPLETE',
'status_message': None,
'status_message_raw': None,
'order_timestamp': datetime.datetime(2020, 12, 28, 13, 30, 4),
'exchange_update_timestamp': '2020-12-28 13:30:04',
'exchange_timestamp': datetime.datetime(2020, 12, 28, 13, 30, 4),
'variety': 'regular',
'exchange': 'MCX',
'tradingsymbol': 'SILVERM21FEBFUT',
'instrument_token': 56064519,
'order_type': 'LIMIT',
'transaction_type': 'SELL',
'validity': 'DAY',
'product': 'NRML',
'quantity': 2,
'disclosed_quantity': 0,
'price': 68857,
'trigger_price': 0,
'average_price': 68857,
'filled_quantity': 2,
'pending_quantity': 0,
'cancelled_quantity': 0,
'market_protection': 0,
'meta': {},
'tag': None,
'guid': '26261X5z3dWuIQTRwy'}


I need to place market order. Kindly help

rakeshr

@pavni
Has the contract hit the circuit limit? You can go through this thread.

pavni

@rakeshr
No, I was trading in silver. It hasn't hit upper or lower circuit.
The instrument token is 56064519.