profit within days

[NZJim]

Hi Guys,

In the backtesting strategy wizard is it possible to have a condition where if the stock is not in profit within 2 weeks then the stock will be stopped out at that days close.

I've also added the conditions of profit and loss on percentage that I want to keep as well.

Any help would be great thanks!

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hello NZJim,

Using the condition builder, you can access the value RealizedPnL. It's under the strategy category. The "two week part" is challenging to do in the strategy wizard only. You can write in a specific date check for with Time > Time series == Time > Date value. Anything more involved with date / time requires working with code directly.

[NZJim]

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for the quick response

How would I do this in the code?

cheers
Jim

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

In programming there are usually multiple ways to do things, so following is only provided as an example to get you started on an approach. General help for working with DateTime objects is available here.

You can capture the DateTime of the first bar and then compare this value + 14 days to the bars's time stamp. Consider the Minimum bars required you're using for your strategy and maybe capture according to this instead of 0.

//variables region
private DateTime = myDateTime;


if (CurrentBar == 0)
myDateTime = Time[0];


if (ToDay(Time[0]) <= ToDay(myDateTime.AddDays(14)))
{
}

[NZJim]

Thanks Ryan,

I'll go and have a go at it!

cheers
Jim