Confused on live strategy

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

I understand. NT7 beta in late Q1 will have persisted strategies from NT session to NT session which of course would be immensely efficient for those running many strategies.

[heech]

I understand. NT7 beta in late Q1 will have persisted strategies from NT session to NT session which of course would be immensely efficient for those running many strategies.

Ray,

That gives me hope. I can deal with short-term pain as long as there's hope for the platform in the long run.

I'd love more information about the beta, and possibly participating. (I can fence off a small account and trade my strategy on it.) You don't see it being available until late Q1?

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

The beta will be available to all and announcements will be made when appropriate.

[heech]

There's another approach I'm considering...

Right now, I already have all of my basic state in a configuration file. Instrument name, start date, num shares, end date, entry/exit/profit targets, etc.

So, I could use this... I could modify Initialize() to basically add all of my instruments into the same chart, even though they're completely separate from each other logically. And I'll just make sure I enter/exit on the right BarsInProgress. Each instrument is running on 3 timeframes... so, with at least 20 symbols, it'd be 60 separate contexts within the same strategy run.

Any problems with this that you see? From an architectural point of view, any downside? I would have to modify MaxEntries (whatever it's called) to match the true number of my instruments.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

You can give it a shot. I have never tried before.