Can track last trigger ran?

[Bobbybattles]

I have a strategy in mind, but in order to make it work, i would need to actually tell ninjatrader something like this...there are 2 triggers in this strategy, one for long trades and one for short. I dont ever want to do the same trigger back to back. Meaning, if a long is triggered, i dont want to do another long until i get a short trigger, and go short, and vice versa.

Simply put, i want the triggers to alternate inside of 1 strategy. Possible?

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello Bobbybattles,

Thanks for your post.

Yes, that is possible. All you need is to use a single bool variable to control the sequencing. A bool variable can only be true or false.

For example, assume you created a bool called FlipFlop. To control the sequencing you could create code similar to this:

if (your conditions to enter long and FlipFlop == true)
{
// enter long order
FlipFlop = false; // change the bool to false to prevent further long entries until preceded by a short order
}

if (your conditions to enter short and FlipFlop == false)
{
// enter short order
FlipFlop == true; // change the bool to true to prevent further short orders until preceded by a long order
}