Handling events outside of NT?

[nijwiv]

Guys,

I'd like to execute some external code (written by myself, in C#, but outside of NT...a la not NinjaScript) on every trade. I see the OnExecution method in the API docs, but this appears to only be in relation to strategies. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,
Nijwiv

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

Hi Nijwiv, there is not a way to have some code fire on every trade (discretionary and automated), but there are events for every strategy trade as you've noticed (OnOrderUpdate, OnExecution, etc).

Let us know if you have any other questions.

[nijwiv]

Hi Nijwiv, there is not a way to have some code fire on every trade (discretionary and automated), but there are events for every strategy trade as you've noticed (OnOrderUpdate, OnExecution, etc).

Let us know if you have any other questions.

Austin,

Thanks. Would polling from an external app be a bad approach here, and if so, why? In other words, I could imagine setting my app to poll every 2-3 seconds call the Orders() client method to get a list of all orders. I assume that the order id is always unique, so I should be able to "monitor" orders in this way? I'm not sure how long an order will be returned by an Orders() call however.

Could you please share some insight on this approach?

Thanks!

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

nijwiv,

You could try. I don't foresee any major issues. Unfortunately this is beyond the level of support we can offer though.

[nijwiv]

Thanks Josh.

Can you tell me:

1. Is Order id always guaranteed to be unique on a per client basis?
2. How long will orders be returned from client.Orders()?

Thanks!

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

1. No, you should use Token.
2. Not sure what you mean. Unfortunately this is beyond the scope of what we can offer support for and there is little more information I can provide.

[nijwiv]

1. No, you should use Token.
2. Not sure what you mean. Unfortunately this is beyond the scope of what we can offer support for and there is little more information I can provide.

All I mean is that there is a set of orders returned from this method call, and I'm interested in how long after execution an order will continue to be returned from this.

Thanks. I appreciate your help.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

nijwiv,

The return does not remove any orders even if they are filled.