ISSUE: How to programattically discover the per-contract margin requirement?

[strategesis]

In NT7, one could find out the per-contract margin requirement by evaluating the expression Instrument.MasterInstrument.Margin. However, in NT8, there is no property named "Margin" defined in MasterInstrument, no obvious renaming of it, and no documentation of how to obtain this critical information.

So how can this information be obtained programatically in NT8?

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

NT8 risks/margins were completely over hauled and the master instrument object no longer contains margin information. These are defined in a "Risk template". You can review a risk template under Tools-> Risk.

To get margin information for a particular instrument, you'll have to query the risk template and then pass in your master instrument

double myMaintenanceMargin = Risk.Get("NinjaTrader Brokerage Default").ByMasterInstrument[Instrument.MasterInstrument].MaintenanceMargin;

We hope to have this documented by the open beta release.