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[NinjaTrader_Ray]

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Thanks Greg -

I have spent a good 15 minutes testing this (you can use the Simulated Data Feed and control the trend up or down) with different ordertypesall has produced expected results. I am sure I am missing something....I suspecta reproducible scenario will surface soon.

Ray

[gregw]

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Hi Ray

I entered 2 positions using Stop Limit Buy at around 2 pm today

Both were set with TimeToClose at 3:51, and neither of them closed out.
I am pretty sure I am setting it up properly, it did work with my trials.

Some thoughts:
1.Maybe it works on a close 5to 10 minutes ahead but fails if close time is too far out
2. These were both stock trades, and the Stock symbol is not in the symbol list, i just enter the symbol in the BEW and hit enter. Maybe the problem lies there

Greg

[gregw]

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Just in case you wanted me to keep you updated here is what played out today

24 Stop Limit orders were entered at the open of trading - all stocks
10 orders triggered
trade management worked great until 1 trade was stopped out on a trailing stop, and the Positions page went blank. I sent the error code to Vincent at support.
I restarted Ninja, and all positions and working orders were there

trade management worked perfectly for the rest of the day, profits were taken, stops were moved up etc...

At 3:51 TimeToClose, there were 8 positions open, none of them got closed out.
All of them had been selected to TimeToClose when they were entered.

Another thought is this:
because I enter so many orders, I don't keep a BEW or a DOM open for them. I enter them, see that they are on the Orders page correclty entered, then I close out the BEW.
All of the trials I performed I kept the trade in a BEW while waiting for the TimeToClose. Maybe it loses track of the TimetoClose if there is no entry window maintained, but it is not reasonable to keep 24 windows open

I hope this helps



Greg

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

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I will check this out. Thanks for the update Greg.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

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Greg,

Here is the issue, you have to enable CloseAtTime after a position is established not before the strategy or while the entry order of the strategy is pending.

Ray

[gregw]

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ok thanks,

so once the position is live in the mkt, I will pull it up in a BEW or DOM, right click and select CloseAtTime.

I will try this tomorrow or Monday, (probably wont trade tomorrow Friday of option exp can get a bit funky)

I should mention to you that shortly before the CloseAtTime, about 10 min ahead, I loaded each trade that was in the market into a BEW, I checked to see if the CloseAtTime was selected, and fior each it was, but yet it still did not close out the position. Perhaps that is not the same as only selecting it once it's inthe mkt.
In any case I test it out.

Thanks

Greg

[gregw]

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Worked perfectly.
I waited until the position was in the market to initiate the CloseAtTime.

All positions were closed out at 3:51 pm,

I am still moving ahead with building this add-on application so that I can enter all my stock trade setups ahead of time, on a single page, and have them sent over to Ninja for trade management.
Do you think using NinjaScript, I will be able to automate that step, i.e engaging the CloseAtTime once the position is filled?
Any idea when the new v. is due out?

Thanks

Greg

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

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Greg, using NinjaScript you can automate the process within our application, not using external application.