No, I said hold the order until sells appear in your favour, but...

No, I said hold the order until sells appear in your favour, but you weren't happy with that. What a surprise. Market bidding takes judgement. Of course in the real world there is another strategy called "negotiation" - where humans get involved instead of your beloved algorithm robots. People do deals, everything else is just order taking. According to experts 60 pct of global trading is just mindless cycling computer trading never reaching any destination but pathetically grasping for some advantage from the special electronic trading privileges granted by fee hungry exchanges. And you would like more of that I suppose. If something cannot go on forever it will stop.