Indicators and OnOrderUpdate

[alejandro888]

Hello devs,

I am trying to get pop up a message from am indiciador when my stop loss is filled (I am placing the Stop loss from an ATM strategy) where I am subscribing the account to the OnOrderUpdate event, it is being fired ok doing the code below

private void OnOrderUpdate(object sender, OrderEventArgs e)
{
     if (e.Order.Account == account1)
     {
     if (e.OrderState == OrderState.Filled && e.Order.IsStopMarket == true || e.OrderState == OrderState.Filled && e.Order.IsStopLimit == true)
     {
          MessageBox.Show("STOP LOSS MESSAGE");
     }
     }
}

but sometimes using the code above, it filled the stop loss (the order disappears) but the trade keeps open, and the trade without any stop loss. (still showing the Limit order for the target)

In order appears in this way:


I thought it was something related to timing when the event is fired it blocks in some way the orders, then I change the message box line for an enabling a timer and show the Messagebox after 2secs, but it still has the same behavior 2/10 times when I tested it, I only tested it on demo no in live accounts at the moment

any suggestion or workaround


Regards.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello alejandro888,

This would be general c#, as NinjaTrader has a NTMessageBoxSimple.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/ntmessageboxsimple_show().htm

To confirm, you are showing the order as filled on the Orders tab of the Control Center, but you are seeing the Position showing on the Positions tab of the Control Center?

Or you are printing the position from the <Account>.PositionUpdate event?

The other issue may be that the c# message box is a thread blocking event. You might need to open this on a different thread.

Alternatively, you could use the already existing Alerts window.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/alert.htm

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/index.html?using_the_alerts_log_window.htm#UnderstandingTheAlertsLogWindow