illogical and buggy strategy working

[andrius]

Hello,

I want to draw serious attention of NT developers how illogical strategy startup work. Problems I see are folowing:

1. if you define new strategy in Control Center->Strategies tab you can Enable that strategy, but it appears to be no way to associate it with some chart.

Context: I have custom built strategy with lots of parameters and I need to define different parameter sets for different symbols, execution time, etc. That means I have StrategyESday, StrategyXnight or whatever defined. Now I desire to start those strategies and see on chart how they perform. If I create new chart and open Strategies dialog on it, there are no my earlier pre-defined strategies in a selection list. That means I have to add new uncustomized strategy to chart, then go to Strategies tab in Control Center, customize it and enable it. Why to complicate things so much and waste time?! Easier option is just to select predefined strategy from list and you are done. Also this way strategy will keep asociated precious trade history.

2. Next problem is that if you asociate strategy via earlier described process you loose that customized strategy (disappears from strategies tab) and it's trade history as soon as you close chart window! Common guys, this is simply ridiculous.

3. If you exit NT that had chart opened with asociated strategy and launch NT again, strategy on chart no longer work, you have to remove it from chart, and repeat lenghty new strategy definition process, not to mention lost trade history and fine tuned parameters.

I think all of this clearly shows that we need:
- ability to select predefined strategies from list on Chart's Strategies dialog;
- make predefined strategy permanent unless it is explicitly deleted.
- automatic launch of new asociated chart upon strategy start from Control Center would be nice touch, this could be configurable.

P.S. Positions tab, PnL still shows local currency sign. This is a bug, unless you allow to select user if he wants to convert Symbol's currency to local currency in Options.

I expect my point of of view is clearly defined and will find it's support among many traders what will lead to desired changes.

Thank you,
-A.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hello A,

Thank you for your comments and suggestions.

You can currently apply a strategy to a chart, save as a workspace, and the strategy along with all its settings are preserved in-between NinjaTrader shutdown and restart. They're saved with the workspace you're using and you can start up the strategy again by setting the enabled property to true. This seems to be what you're looking for. Could you please clarify where the current implementation could be improved?

[andrius]

In my opinion what you suggest is not practical from usability point of view and it misses main point - ability to predefine many (10+) customized strategies and apply them on demand - open chart, then Strategies dialog and chose one of the predefined strategies from the list, no further customizations necessary.

Best of all this is not difficult to implement - just list in that dialog strategies available on Control Center's strategies tab, that's it! Binding one feature to complex sequence of actions is rather poor application usability design, especialy when problem could be solved in simple and elegant way.

-A.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Thank you for your suggestions on improving strategy enablement.