Preventing live orders from submitting when backtesting

[anachronist]

This isn't a question about the strategy analyzer itself. Rather I want to ask about running a strategy on a chart.

Is there any way to prevent a strategy from sending a live order on the last bar? As a temporary fix I tried

if (!Historical) return;

at the beginning of OnBarUpdate() but it doesn't seem to matter -- if the strategy generated an order on historical data prior to the next live tick, the order gets sent.

The reason I want to prevent this is so that my ATM backtesting framework will work properly. It uses unmanaged orders on historical data, but I want it to switch over to ATM strategies on live data, and I don't want a lingering historical order to end up sitting there in the DOM ladder.

-Alex

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hi Alex,

You can work with CurrentBar in relation to Count to identify the last bar on the chart. This will depend on CalculateOnBarClose settings.

bool isLastBar = CalculateOnBarClose ? Count - 2 == CurrentBar : Count - 1 == CurrentBar;

You could work that bool into your entry conditions. Pseudo code:
if (entryCondition && !isLastBar)
{
}