talking voice? market positions from within indicator?

[zweistein]

Hi,

I would like to do something simple:

I trade discretionally using the charttrader using very simple ATM strategies (OCO stopp and target).

I would like to programm a talking voice that updates me about my open positions, e.g. 20pt profit reached, etc.

I tried programming a custom strategy , but this is of no use since it will not run whenever charttrader is open (which is open all the time)

So an indicator...

But how can I access the Position related functions ?


Anyone with a good idea?

Thank you

Andreas

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Andreas,

Indicators cannot access account information.

[zweistein]

ok, it seemed so.

So I have a question concering strategies:

Will a strategy continue to run (and receive all OnBarUpdate()) calls also when the charttrader window is open, or are the strategies halted as long as the charttrader is open?


Any good idea around to help ?

Andreas

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Andreas,

Strategies cannot run on the same chart as a Chart Trader. If you have two charts or run the strategy from the Strategies tab they will not interfere with each other, but remember NinjaScript strategies don't know what you have did for discretionary trades either.

[zweistein]

hooking Position functions

So the solution would be to hook into NT account and position update functions.

Is there something available?


Andreas

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Unfortunately this is not supported at this point in time.

[jrs]

Depending upon the broker platform (like IB), you could use their API to determine your PNL and then code the voice from there. I have done a lot with the IB API but don't know how well the others work...