Toolbar Buttons

[alfa123]

I got this code from e mini-fools site and compile in NT7.there were some errors in it but fixed.What i was looking ,,,have some buttons on top of chart to turn on/off strategy,,instead of opening and using enable/disable function.Specially when news are comming OR FOMC rate annoucment is due and b4 market hit u,,,just turn on or off by one click.Plz use it on your own risk.NO responsibility on my side.Its my first
contribution in file sharing with a file.THANKS

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Thanks for sharing alfa123.

[luxurious_04]

I got this code from e mini-fools site and compile in NT7.there were some errors in it but fixed.What i was looking ,,,have some buttons on top of chart to turn on/off strategy,,instead of opening and using enable/disable function.Specially when news are comming OR FOMC rate annoucment is due and b4 market hit u,,,just turn on or off by one click.Plz use it on your own risk.NO responsibility on my side.Its my first
contribution in file sharing with a file.THANKS

Hello alfa123, yeah we have the same thing looking for. I also want to have an idea on how to have buttons on top of the chart to turn on/off strategy so that no need for us to go to the strategy tab to enable and disable strategy which could take a lot of time. For example, we detected a gap then something had happen in the market we want to off directly our strategies so that we could not be hit by the market and stay out from the loss.

[alfa123]

Thanks for reply.Did u try toolbarbuttons?

[luxurious_04]

Yes, but I don't know how it really works well I mean his full potential. If I have 5 strategies running can I control all of it by using this ToolBarButtons?

[alfa123]

yes,just add like a strategy in all your charts and enable when u want to use ,it will work like any other stratyegy.good luck.

[snaphook]

alfa,
I have found a problem in Dispose(). With it enabled, not commented out, any draw objects are persistent and are not erased upon removal of the strategy.

However, with it commented out, additional buttons are added.

To Resolve, simply add

RemoveDrawObjects();

to Dispose()

[alfa123]

Thanks for your feed back.

[britfish]

What code do you need to add so that it will enable/disable a strategy?

[snaphook]

Shell

Here is a modification that allows for auto and manual entries.

It adds two buttons for manual entry. The Auto button must be set to Manual and the Long or Short entry buttons enabled (Green). Then a click on either manual button will place a market order, Long or Short.

I hope there aren't too many errors.

[alfa123]

Thanks again for your hard work.

[britfish]

Excellent!

Here is a modification that allows for auto and manual entries.

It adds two buttons for manual entry. The Auto button must be set to Manual and the Long or Short entry buttons enabled (Green). Then a click on either manual button will place a market order, Long or Short.

I hope there aren't too many errors.

Many thanks. This is much more than I expected. Much appreciated.

[snaphook]

Another update

This adds:
1) A Flatten button that immediately closes open positions,
2) separators between the buttons,
3) a confirmation Message Box when entering Auto Trading from Manual trading.

[alfa123]

nice work.carry on

[tonynt]

Snaphook,

great work. Thanks for sharing this. Did you ever think about changing it this way so that you can add the buttons vertically in the chart? (Because the toolbar is getting so extended and the chart too)

Just an idea.

Thanks again and best regards
Tony