MasterInstrument.Margin and MasterInstrument.Margin2

[freewind]

Hi,

I tried to search for it in the documentation and forum and there is no info.

1. What is the Margin and Margin2 properties and from where NT takes its values?

2. Also what is the idea behind MasterInstrument compare to Instrument.
I understand that this is a class inside a class but what is the design idea behind it?

Thanks!

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

freewind, those are unfortunately unsupported properties, we support what is documented in our helpguide (margin though is set in the instrument manager).

The compare method is useful to avoid running into floating point accuracy issues while comparing price values.

[freewind]

Hi Bertrand,

In question 2 I wanted to understand the different between Instrument class and MasterInstrument class. The name MasterInstrument is confusing and I don't understand from where it take the data?

Thanks again for your time.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

I see, the master instrument is the one defined in your instrument manager, for a futures contract this would be for example the 'raw' data needed to define it (point value, exchange, map, roll period etc) - the actual instrument on the chart is then represented by the instrument class, i.e. this would be the futures contract with a specific expiry that you could execute on.

[freewind]

Thank you for an amazing support!