Programmatically checking for back-testing

[heech]

Hi,

I would like to send myself an alert email under certain (crisis) conditions *if* I'm executing live, rather than in back-testing mode.

Is there a way in my NinjaScript code to distinguish between the two conditions? How can I tell whether I'm truly "live" rather than under simulation?

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

How about:

if (Historical)
// We are backtesting

[heech]

Beautiful, thanks.

[heech]

Something related... is there some way to programmatically determine that I'm on the *last* bar of my backtest run? I am accumulating some of my own statistics, and this would be the right time to dump it to the output.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Try comparing CurrentBar to Count.

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

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

[heech]

Try comparing CurrentBar to Count.

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

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/H...urrentBar.html

Ray,

You know, that *should* work... but it doesn't seem to, at least not on the first test I just ran. The logic wasn't working for me... so I tried printing CurrentBar and Count every time into the update function... but it ends with this:

Currentbar: 152, Count: 154

Shouldn't the last CurrentBar be 153?

[heech]

This back-test represented 60 minute bars over 22 days, so 154 bars should be the right result. Looks like the last bar was cut off before the end... perhaps the last bar, ending at 4:30 PM on the last day, isn't fed into the strategy for backtesting?

As long as that's consistent behavior, not a big deal. I can just use Count-2 to compare CurrentCount against. Key is that it's consistent behavior...

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Let us know if this is not consistent.