Running Strategy on Simulator and Live

[veetek]

Hello,

I have design Automated Strategy, back tested and now when I add it to Strategies window in Control Center it is not doing anything on simulator (ZenFire). Of course I wouldn't like to try it on live market without extensive test on Sim. Please let me know why it is not executing the orders even the Start is enabled? What am I missing?

Best regards.

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hi veetek,

Please check the Log-tab for any error messages.

Could it be your strategy is referencing bars not listed in your chart? If so, please see the following link.

http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3170

Could it be the conditions in your strategy were not met yet?

[veetek]

Hello Jason,

I have used the wizard to design thissimple strategy based on Parabolic SAR. Is there any way to check this issue inside of wizard without writing a script?

Here is my strategy (out of wizard):

// This namespace holds all strategies and is required. Do not change it.
namespace NinjaTrader.Strategy
{
///<summary>
///
///</summary>
[Description("")]
publicclass SARTest1 : Strategy
{
#region Variables
// Wizard generated variables
// User defined variables (add any user defined variables below)
#endregion

///<summary>
/// This method is used to configure the strategy and is called once before any strategy method is called.
///</summary>
protectedoverridevoid Initialize()
{
Add(ParabolicSAR(0.02, 0.2, 0.02));
Add(ParabolicSAR(0.02, 0.2, 0.02));

CalculateOnBarClose = true;
}

///<summary>
/// Called on each bar update event (incoming tick)
///</summary>
protectedoverridevoid OnBarUpdate()
{
// Condition set 1
if (CrossBelow(GetCurrentAsk(), ParabolicSAR(0.02, 0.2, 0.02), 1))
{
EnterShort(DefaultQuantity, "");
}

// Condition set 2
if (CrossAbove(GetCurrentAsk(), ParabolicSAR(0.02, 0.2, 0.02), 1))
{
ExitShort("", "");
}
}

#region Properties
#endregion
}
}

[veetek]

One more message from a log:

Default

Error on setting property 'Account' for strategy 'SAR6minShort': Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

[veetek]

I apologize for cofusion. I thought the start button was pressed but it was not. Everything is working now. Thank you!