Net Profit or Loss for Today

[kenb2004]

I've looked at your TradeCollection and Performance properties in the guide, and I see how you can get Long trades and Short trades and All trades, and winners and losers, but what about Today's net profit or loss. How would you make Today's net profit/loss Print to the output window from a strategy?
Thanks

[NinjaTrader_JC]

Hello kenb2004,

You would have to do some custom calculations for example:

if (Bars.FirstBarOfSession)
			{
				// Store the strategy's prior cumulated realized profit
				priorTradesCumProfit = Performance.AllTrades.TradesPerformance.Currency.CumProfit;
				/* NOTE: Using .AllTrades will include both historical virtual trades as well as real-time trades.
				If you want to only count profits from real-time trades please use .RealtimeTrades. */
			}
			
			Print("Today's Profit: "+(Performance.AllTrades.TradesPerformance.Currency.CumProfit - priorTradesCumProfit));

The following forum post you can use as a reference when working with trade performance statistics.
http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...ead.php?t=4084

[kenb2004]

Hey JC

Thanks for the code.

[brucelevy]

How can you print results for the prior trade pnl when a new trade is executed in a strategy?

[NinjaTrader_ZacharyG]

Hello brucelevy,

Thank you for writing in.

I would suggest taking a look at this help guide link: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...nt7/?trade.htm

There is an example that shows how to calculate the PnL for the last completed real-time trade.

Please, let us know if we may be of further assistance.

[brucelevy]

Ok it's working great now but prints the message continuously. I have it in the OnBarUpdate section... and CalculateOnBarClose = true;

Does it need a check to stop it from continually printing? I am asking because it is connected to sendmail.

[NinjaTrader_CodyB]

Hello,
This would depend on how you have the logic setup for the print.
Please provide a snippet from your code that covers your print so we may investigate further.