How to programatically determine if I am in a trade?

[DancesWithBears]

I need to write an indicator that searches for different conditions once a trade has been entered.

How do I do this?

Thru the Performance.RealtimeTrades.Count ?

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Performance does not return you things until your trade is complete. If you want to do things from when you enter a trade you would want to detect changes in Position.MarketPosition and Position.Quantity to determine that you have entered a trade.

[DancesWithBears]

Think I got it.

My indicator has to poll the Position object for changes.

or I could implement :

The OnPositionUpdate() method

Performance does not return you things until your trade is complete. If you want to do things from when you enter a trade you would want to detect changes in Position.MarketPosition and Position.Quantity to determine that you have entered a trade.