setting up bars

[Bobbybattles]

I have a strategy set up, but I want the order to kick in 2 bars after my signal.

So if the strategy signal is seen, the strategy will wait 2 more bars before entering the position. How can I do this?

[NinjaTrader_AlanP]

Hello Bobbybattles,

Thank you for the note.

Assuming the strategy is running on a daily series, to have an order go out on a delay, you could save the current bar to a variable, along with setting a bool to execute on delay. Then in your strategy you would check if that bool was set to true and CurrentBar was >= xBar+2, and if so, enterLong.

For example,

if(Close[0]>0)
{[INDENT]xBar=CurrentBar;
enterDelay=true;[/INDENT]
}

if(enterDelay==true)[INDENT]if(CurrentBar>=xBar+2)
{[INDENT]EnterLong();
enterDelay=false;[/INDENT]
}[/INDENT]

enterDelay will remain set to true, and on the bar after next, the CurrentBar will be equal to xBar+2, thus the strategy will submit an order and then set enterDelay back to false.

Your strategy would need the following variables declared,

private enterDelay=false;
private int xBar;

Please let us know if you need further assistance.