AccountItem.CashValue is 0 on live chart

[entropy]

Hello, I have AccoutItem.CashValue being stored correctly in my indicator but when connecting to a live account on live chart it is returning 0. This is not backtesting / not historical bars and my indicator is CalculateOnBarClose = false;

It returns the value of Sim101 correctly but not my live accounts (FXCM). The CashValue displays properly in the Accounts tab in Control Center. Default value of the var is -1 so I know it's being incorrectly set to 0.

How to get the correct value?

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello entropy,

Thank you for your post.

I tested this out with my own indicator and a demo account with NinjaTrader FXCM and I was able to produce the values.
Attached is my indicator. Are you doing anything differently?

[entropy]

Hi Patrick thank you! I am doing a few things differently--my first goal is to get the code you sent me imported and compiled (I'm using NT7) seems a number of the using declarations are different? Could you send me the file as an NT exported package I can import to NT7 and I'll try to troubleshoot from there?

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello entropy,

Thank you for your response.

My example was for NinjaTrader 8. In NinjaTrader 7, how are you accessing AccountItem in an indicator?
Can you post your code to your response?