Turning onbarclose on and off

[ct]

Is there any issue with turning onbarclose for a strategy on and off. I can conserve my cpu most of the time but would liek to dynamically turn on onbarclose=false when getting close to my target.

I wasn't sure if there were any problems in doing this.

Cheers

ct

[mrlogik]

I dont think you can change that input while the strategy is running without having it recalculate for the entire chart. If you do that, NT will likely close your position.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

We do not recommended doing this, but you can try and see if its behavior is still acceptable for your needs. If you experience what mrlogik's point then you will most likely not be able to use this approach.

Alternatively you can create your own logic to mimic CalculateOnBarClose with if-statement for if (FirstTickOfBar) { } which essentially is on close of previous bar. Remember you will need to change all bar indexing to be one back (Close[0] should be Close[1]).