Enter Trade by Contract Quantity

[eugenedw]

I've created a strategy that is designed to purchase 5 futures contracts using the EnterLong method. I'm having a problem where, instead of treating the purchase like a futures purchase, Ninja treats the purchase like stock, deducting from my account 5 times the price of the index rather than doing the math of purchasing the contract with margin factored in

can anyone help

thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

eugenedw, thanks for your post and welcome to our support forums here at NinjaTrader! Which margin have you setup to use for your contract(s) in the Instrument Manager? (Tools > Instrument Manager) - http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/H...struments.html

[eugenedw]

I took a look at the settings for the instrument and everything looks okay. More research through Output logs shows me that the problem wasn't actually with the contract quantity calculation being wrong, but that the account cash value was being calculated incorrectly. After I exit a position I immediately enter a new position - this new position is determined in part by the cash value of the account. According to the logs, this value is not the value after the position was exited - it appears as if the strategy is moving too quickly to the next contract purchase. Do I need to put some sort of sleeper function in place so that the code waits for the account balance to be updated before it enters the new position? thanks.

[NinjaTrader_ChristopherJ]

I took a look at the settings for the instrument and everything looks okay. More research through Output logs shows me that the problem wasn't actually with the contract quantity calculation being wrong, but that the account cash value was being calculated incorrectly. After I exit a position I immediately enter a new position - this new position is determined in part by the cash value of the account. According to the logs, this value is not the value after the position was exited - it appears as if the strategy is moving too quickly to the next contract purchase. Do I need to put some sort of sleeper function in place so that the code waits for the account balance to be updated before it enters the new position? thanks.

Hello eugenedw,

I am forwarding your reply to NinjaTrader_Bertrand and you will receive a reply prior to the market open on Monday.

Thank you for your patience and have a great weekend!

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

eugenedw, thanks for the patience - to clarify: are you expecting to access your live brokerage account value through NinjaScript? Unfortunately this is not supported.