Wait until flat before executing live

[James Beale]

I'm afraid I'm struggling a little to understand the "Wait until flat before executing live" setting.

What is "flat"?

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello James,

When you are flat this means that you are currently not in a position.

You can be Long, Short or Flat for an account position so the statement "Wait until flat before executing live" will do as it says. This makes the strategy wait until your account position is flat before submitting live orders.

Please let me know if I may be of additional assistance.

[elliot5]

Not executing if Account position Flat

Is there any code that prevents a strategy firing if the ACCOUNT position is not flat? For example a position in another instrument on the particular account would prevent the strategy firing.

Simple concept but I cannot find the right code to achieve this.

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello,

There is no method to prevent a strategy from trading as this relies on the logic you create that produce the orders, if you tell the strategy not to do anything it will not do anything you just need to write the logic to place trades or not depending on a variable.

For this there is no documented or supported method currently but you could look into this post.
This essentially allows you to query the account and check for positions although this is not guaranteed to be in sync as it is not supported so please be aware of that.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=55718

I look forward to being of further assistance.

[elliot5]

Account flat before trading

I am currently testing this code:

&& Account.Positions.Count <=0