lost connection then email using OnConnectionStatus()

[trdmark]

I have created a strategy using OnConnectionStatus() to monitor connection status and to email when lost connection , and attached it to 1minute as strategy
unfortunately it does not seems to be working, no email when lost connection. Anyone can look at the code below?


// This namespace holds all strategies and is required. Do not change it.
namespace NinjaTrader.Strategy
{
/// <summary>
/// Enter the description of your strategy here
/// </summary>
[Description("Enter the description of your strategy here")]
public class CONNECTION : Strategy
{
#region Variables
// Wizard generated variables
private int myInput0 = 1; // Default setting for MyInput0
private ConnectionStatus dataFeed = ConnectionStatus.ConnectionLost;
// User defined variables (add any user defined variables below)
#endregion

/// <summary>
/// This method is used to configure the strategy and is called once before any strategy method is called.
/// </summary>
protected override void Initialize()
{
CalculateOnBarClose = true;
}

/// <summary>
/// Called on each bar update event (incoming tick)
/// </summary>






protected override void OnOrderUpdate(IOrder order)
{
if (dataFeed != ConnectionStatus.ConnectionLost)
{
// email when connectionlost
SendMail("[email protected]", "[email protected]", "lost connection", "lost connection");


}
}



protected override void OnConnectionStatus(ConnectionStatus orderStatus, ConnectionStatus priceStatus)
{
dataFeed = priceStatus;
}

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello trdmark,

Thanks for your post and welcome to the NinjaTrader forums!

You need to change the logical operator in the if statement from != to == because you want to send the e-mail when the datafeed is equal to Connection.Lost. As is the code (with the operator !=) would send e-mail on every OnOrderUpdate(). Since your strategy is not yet placing orders, the OnOderUpdate() is not called and would be why you are not getting e-mails. You can move your condition check and e-mail sending to the OnConnectionStatus() so you get the e-mail when the connection is lost.

protected override void OnConnectionStatus(ConnectionStatus orderStatus, ConnectionStatus priceStatus)
{
dataFeed = priceStatus;

if (dataFeed == ConnectionStatus.ConnectionLost)
{
// email when connectionlost
SendMail(fromaddress, toaddress, "lost connection", "lost connection");
}
}