Detect a change of Market Position State

[mefTrader]

How do I detect the change of Market Position State from previous bar to the current bar?

Do I have to use "OnPositionUpdate" ??

Or some form of the following will work? (this does not work but gives you an idea of what I am trying to do - I am trying to check if the previous bar's Market Poisition was not Long!)

(Position.MarketPosition[1] != MarketPosition.Long)


Regards...

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

mefTrader, unfortunately you can't access the historical MarketPosition as series - you would need to record the value to a variable or custom series for tracking and then compare.

[mefTrader]

Does "OnPositionUpdate" detect the change of state?

protected override void OnPositionUpdate(IPosition position)
{
if (position.MarketPosition == MarketPosition.Long)
{
MyATRCalc = ATR(14)[0]*atr5min_trail_mult_long;
PosLow = Low[0] - MyATRCalc ;
}
}

Im trying to assess the initial condition of the stop loss here - will this work

and then revert back to OnBarUpdate to change this Dynamically i.e change PosLow Dynamically

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

mefTrader, for this the best approach would be to reset to a default value when you're in a flat state and then updating dynamically in OnBarUpdate() later - http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...ead.php?t=3222