Simulated Trading

[CraigC]

Hi there,
Sorry if this has been asked before but I can't find anything with the search.
Ninjatrader is capable of placing simulated trades against a real account, is it possible for a NinjaScript strategy to choose if any given trade is simulated or real, or to put it another way, can scripts toggle between real and paper trading?

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Sure, by changing the account setting when running a strategy. The account is eitehr a real one or a simulated one.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

If you mean changing account inside of the script itself, this is not supported.

[CraigC]

Thank you for the quick reply.
Can this perhaps be considered in perhaps a future release? as you can imagine it would be advantageous for a strategy to be able to revert to paper trading automatically once a certain non-profit criteria has been reached, it could then monitor it's paper trades awaiting market conditions to return to it's favor.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Programmatic account control is on our list for future consideration.

[CraigC]

Cool, thanks.

[CraigC]

Also I must say, I'm new to NT and I'm currently in evaluation mode and so far it looks like a great product, the usage of C# for scripting is a masterstroke!