Instrument List

[wookey]

Is there any way to get the instrument list for the current instrument from code?
Basically I need to do different action depending on which list the current instrument is in.

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_JessicaP]

Hello wookey, and thank you for your question.

There is no direct way to map instruments to instrument lists.

Going the other way - instrument list to instrument - while this is not documented, and we can only offer limited support, you may loop through instrument lists using this code :

[FONT=Courier New]string instrumentListName = "FOREX";
NinjaTrader.Cbi.InstrumentList list1 = NinjaTrader.Cbi.InstrumentList.GetObject(instrumentListName);

foreach (Instrument i in list1.Instruments)
{
    Print("My name is " + i.FullName);
}

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You could, then, store a list of instrument list names in your code, and then loop through them to see if a given instrument is on a list. This will in turn allow you to map instruments back to instrument lists, which should resolve your query. That code may look like this :

[FONT=Courier New]private string[] instrumentLists = {"FOREX"};
private static string listFromInstrument(Instrument instrument)
{
    foreach(string instrumentList in instrumentLists)
    {
        NinjaTrader.Cbi.InstrumentList list1 = NinjaTrader.Cbi.InstrumentList.GetObject(instrumentList);

        foreach (Instrument i in list1.Instruments)
        {
            if (i.FullName == instrument.FullName)
            {
                return instrumentList;
            }
        }
    }
    return "Default";
}
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Please let us know if there are any other ways we can help.

[wookey]

This solution works. Thank you!