Publish manual trades to Twitter

[JoshDance]

I'd like to use some library (perhaps this one: http://twittervb.codeplex.com/documentation or some other one) to publish trades I make to twitter as I place them. The thing is, these are manually placed trades in the DOM, not strategy-initiated trades. Is it possible to do something like this with a user-initiated trade?

Said another way, can I receive events in a strategy and retrieve order information, if that order was not placed within the strategy?

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

JoshDance, tapping into manual events is not currently supported.

Strategies don't know about positions/orders/fills started outside that strategy.

[JoshDance]

Thanks Austin. It sounds like my best option may be to read from the log file.

[JoshDance]

I'm trying now to open the log file. Here is my code:

        protected override void Initialize()
        {
            Overlay				= false;
            CalculateOnBarClose	= false;
			Print("trying to open: " + path);
			if (File.Exists(path))
			{
				try {
					sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(path);
					sr.ReadToEnd();
				}
				catch (Exception e)
				{Print("Error reading file.");}
			}
			else
				Print("File does not exist.");

        }

Above that I define "path" this way:

		private string path = Cbi.Core.UserDataDir.ToString() + "log\\log.20110508";

My output window then says:

trying to open: C:\Users\Josh\Documents\NinjaTrader 7\log\log.20110508
File does not exist.

But if I copy the exact string from the error message, I can go to notepad and paste it and open the file. Any ideas? This should be simple, not sure what's going on. And yes, the file actually exists and I can open it, and the date is correct.

[J_o_s]

Interesting thread. Perhaps this is reflecting my lack of knowledge regarding your problem, but wouldn't it be easier to use the SendMail() command and update twitter by email?

Regards,

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

JoshDance, looks like it's missing .txt ending file extension?

[JoshDance]

Interesting thread. Perhaps this is reflecting my lack of knowledge regarding your problem, but wouldn't it be easier to use the SendMail() command and update twitter by email?

Regards,

I may in fact use that but right now the issue is that I have to get the data from somewhere, and the only solution I can think of for this particular problem is to do so via reading the log.

[JoshDance]

JoshDance, looks like it's missing .txt ending file extension?

Thanks Bertrand, big duh on my part! Windows explorer is hiding the .txt extension.

[JoshDance]

I'm getting the following error:

Error reading file. System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file 'C:\Users\Josh\Documents\NinjaTrader 7\log\log.20110509.txt' because it is being used by another process.

That other process would obviously be NT, which has it open for read/write. Is there a way using the StreamReader(path) to open this as read-only, or is this even possible? I'm currently just doing:

sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(path);

Edit: I just changed the code to try to open readwrite and it works:

fs = new FileStream(path,FileMode.Open,FileAccess.Read,FileShare.ReadWrite);
sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(fs);

[dennho]

Can we see your Twitter feed when you are done? I guess your trades have to be seen by us somehow

[JoshDance]

Can we see your Twitter feed when you are done? I guess your trades have to be seen by us somehow

Sure, but if I were you, I wouldn't base any trade decisions off of anything I do, unless you want your account to decline like mine has the last couple of weeks. This is more of an interesting exercise for me than anything else. I just switched my name last night so it may not show up yet, but it's "joshtrader" , let me know if you can find me. Also, I'm only posting executions as they happen, not when the order is placed, stop location, etc. From what I can tell so far, it posts to twitter to within about 2-3 seconds, not bad at all really.