Current position in a backtest

[Jean-Marc-Molina]

Hello,

How can I know the current position (number of opened buy or sell contracts) in a standard Ninja backtest script?

Thank you in adavance.


regards.

[NinjaTrader_Jessica]

You can view all of the executions from the backtest under the Executions tab.

You may also find what you you are looking for under the Trades tab.

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

This should help: http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/H...Positions.html

[Jean-Marc-Molina]

Thank you but this does not seem to work

Position.MarketPosition and all the other options such as Positions.Quantity don't seem to be useful for backtests. They are not updated when orders are executed. They only seem to work for real time trading.

In a backtest: I have EnterLongStop and EnterShortStop Orders. I want to be able to know when they are filled (if they are). If not filled whin a certain amount of time, I want to cancel them. I'm not able to find a solution for backtest mode.

Any suggestion?

If you'd like to have a look to the code I've written, I'd be pleased to share it.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Not sure I follow...

Position.MarketPosition is updated on a reported fill of any order in backtest and live.

If you want to cancel orders, use the CancelOrder() after holding a reference to an IOrder object that is returned when calling an order method.