How do prevent selling of our position on the same day that it was opened?

[tomkim]

I want my automatic trading strategy to not close a position on the same day that it was opened. How do I do this?

Thanks

Tom

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Tom, for this you would need to set ExitOnClose in the UI to false when running or backtesting your strategy -

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/RunningANinjaScriptStrategyFromAChart.html

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/BacktestAStrategy.html

[tomkim]

ExitOnClose "Indicates if the strategy will cancel all strategy generated orders and close all open strategy positions at the close of the session."

This is not what I want to do. I only want the open order to execute no more than once per day and for sell order to not execute on the same day the open order was executed. Also I want to control this programatically.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Tom, thanks for clarifying - you would then need to control this via a boolean flag included in your trade entry conditions that you reset each day to allow for new trades to be taken.

[borland]

Look in the Help Guide for 'IExecution', there is a 'DateTime' property that you can use in your boolean trade logic conditional statements.

[tomkim]

Thanks looks like that will work.

Looks like you get the iExecution variable passed in on OnExecution. Can I save that to a global variable at that time and reference it later?

Another related question. Is there a new instance of the strategy running for each equity it is monitoring? In other words, if I save iExecution to a global variable, will it affect any other equities I'll be monitoring with the same strategy?

thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Tom, yes you could save values returned to a custom variable.

Correct, this would only refer to the individual strategy instance, as NinjaScript strategies do not cross communicate.