Position.MarketPosition Shows Long when I'm not

[peteM]

Hi, can anyone help me figure out why the code below immediately returns Long and shows a profit or loss before a position is taken? I'm trying this in Simulation on Forex right now.


if (Position.MarketPosition != MarketPosition.Flat)
{
Print("Open PnL: " + Position.GetProfitLoss(Close[0], PerformanceUnit.Currency));
Print(Position.MarketPosition.ToString());
}

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

Hello,

Welcome to our forums!

We'd need to see more code without guessing, but to help isolate this for you, I'd suggest adding a check to see if this is returning in real-time data, or historical

Print(Historical);

This will return True when the bars/position calculated are historical, and false when they're real-time.

If you would only like to run on real-time bars, you can add the following to the beginning of your OnBarUpdate():

if(Historical)
return;

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/historical.htm

[peteM]

Mathew, thank you very much, saved me from pulling the rest of my hair out.

Can you tell me, is there any reason why I would not want that Historical code in any strategy I intend to run in real time?

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

If you plan on doing any backtesting, this will prevent it from running.