Trade existance

[FCatan]

Hi, I have an indicator that collects volume data, but I only want to collect this data when in a trade. Is there a way to detect the existence of a trade from within an indicator? thanks

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello FCatan,

Thanks for your post.

While this is unsupported code you could accomplish your goal with modifying this code snippet:

foreach (Account acct in Cbi.Globals.Accounts)
			{
				if (acct.Positions != null)
				{
					PositionCollection positions = acct.Positions;
					foreach (Position pos in positions)
					{
						Print(pos.Account.Name + " " + pos.Instrument + " " + pos.MarketPosition + " " + pos.Quantity + " " + pos.AvgPrice);
					}
				}
			}

[koganam]

Hi, I have an indicator that collects volume data, but I only want to collect this data when in a trade. Is there a way to detect the existence of a trade from within an indicator? thanks

if (Position.MarketPosition != MarketPosition.Flat) 
{
//you are in a trade. Do as thou wilt.
}

[FCatan]

Thank you Koganam, but when I run this code I get this message:

An object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or property 'NinjaTrader.Cbi.Position.MarketPosition.get'

[koganam]

Thank you Koganam, but when I run this code I get this message:

An object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or property 'NinjaTrader.Cbi.Position.MarketPosition.get'

My mistake. You said Indicator. You were talking about being in a position, so my brain pooped and assumed that you were in Strategy land. Indicators cannot natively determine if you are in a position, so the point is moot.

One can certainly create code so that a specific Strategy works in tandem with a specific Indicator to pass along that information, but that is a rather limiting option..

There are other deeper approaches to allow an indicator to read a Strategy position. Indeed the code from, NinjaTrader_Paul, in this thread, suitably filtered, could probably get that information.

There is also an indicator, shared in the Forum, that can read Strategy positions, by querying the Strategy event handlers. You may care to search for it.

Addendum: This is the indicator of which I spoke. Whereas it was designed to email executions in an account, It does show you how to access Strategy information from an indicator. http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...catid=6&id=533