Current Cash Balance

[malbeth35]

I'm pretty new to Ninja Trader, and have my little strategy all built up and am testing it. But, there are two things I'd really like to know, but haven't seen any way to get that info from the documentation and very little on the forum.

1. When I make a trade, I want to know how much cash was transacted, and also the commission amount for that trade.
2. How can I find out my account's cash balance? There is an object Account, with a method GetAccountItem, but there doesn't appear to be any documentation on the complete list of items that you can get. Or is there another way to get that info?
   • I see that on the GUI in the Accounts tab, that it shows a column called Cash Value, but is that my instantaneous actual cash balance or is that cash + market value of my positions, or what?

What I want to be able to do is make sure that I do not trade more than some level of my available cash. I can do that by knowing how much cash went out or came in with each trade, or by looking at my total cash on hand.

But, I see no way of getting either piece of information.

Thanks in advance for the help.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

1. To get information on your trades you can use the Trades object. http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/H...radeClass.html

2. Unfortunately you cannot get your account balance from your brokerage inside a strategy. The cash column is how much money you have and does not contain your market value of instruments.

3. You can do what you want by using the Trades object and Performance objects to calculate out what went out and in.

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/Performance.html