Strategy fails to reverse a trade

[nailz420]

My strategy fails to book a long trade when there is an existing short trade. This is the last entries in the logs/Executions.txt :

2010-01-20 13:31:54:146	28f6bf1a96284355af97689f746d17fe	3ba462af43e546adb90ee1cfde178eaf	0	False	Default	YM 03-10 Globex	True	Short	Close position	9005cb8b1eb0411e97f2e9001627cf1b	2010-01-20 13:31:54:146	Hosted	1	10484	c13b6f02c379473183b816d705a2c145
2010-01-20 13:31:54:156	9e291ae28466473f83fabf3ceed167e5	3ba462af43e546adb90ee1cfde178eaf	0	False	Default	YM 03-10 Globex	True	Short	sell	e3ae95d5ec13403380fc93ebdc16bec6	2010-01-20 13:31:54:156	Hosted	1	10484	d260c081a20a4e0885d73dd5c52485f2

and this is what I see in the output window:

1/20/2010 3:02:50 PM Entered internal PlaceOrder() method at 1/20/2010 3:02:50 PM: Action=Buy OrderType=Market Quantity=1 LimitPrice=0 StopPrice=0 SignalName='buy' FromEntrySignal=''
1/20/2010 3:02:50 PM Ignored PlaceOrder() method at 1/20/2010 3:02:50 PM: Action=Buy OrderType=Market Quantity=1 LimitPrice=0 StopPrice=0 SignalName='buy' FromEntrySignal='' Reason='Exceeded entry signals limit based on EntryHandling and EntriesPerDirection properties'

EntryHandling and EntriesPerDirection are set to default values.

Is this normal or can it be a bug?

Thanks,
Tim

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Tim,

Single series strategy? Please add your own prints to print out what exactly the strategy position is right before submitting your entry order. See what it evaluates out to be.

[tradejockey]

my workaround has been to increase the "EntriesPerDirection" and it helped (perhaps along with syncposition = true). I check MarketPosition prior to placing trade so technically I neednt have had to do this but hey if this is what it takes then thats fine. It triggers now every time without a hitch.

[nailz420]

Resolved

Sorry, it was my fault so no bug here. I set the signal name in one part of the strategy and i wasn't using the same signal name to close the positions.