Changing workspace

[Weston]

Is it possible, from within a strategy, to change the active workspace?

I have multiple workspaces open and, when certain conditions are met, I want to have the workspace in which those conditions were met to be immediately visible rather than having to manually navigate to that workspace.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Unfortunately a strategy cannot change workspaces.

[Weston]

Another question

Thanks, Josh, for the answer.

Another, unrelated question. In the strategy wizard, one can set a user-defined variable. Is this variable "persistent"? The next time the system calls the strategy subroutine (I assume it's a subroutine), will that variable still have the same value I assigned it the last time the subroutine was called?

Sorry - this question probably stems from my ignorance of C. I've coded for many years, but don't know C at all.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

No, it will only persist for the given instance of the strategy. If you stop it its gone.

[Weston]

How can I do this?

OK, thanks.

How, then, can I set a flag that can be accessed, read every time the strategy is called?

The strategy I'm attempting to complete calls for (1) an MA crossover and (2) a bar to form completely below (or above) the shorter-term MA. No problem with determining this when it first occurs (I just look back at the previous bar on the open of the new bar), but the strategy needs to "know" that it occurred in the past, even if 30 bars ago. I could probably loop through each time and see if this condition did occur, but that seems unnecessarily resource intensive. Hope this makes sense.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

You cannot make anything that persists through different instances of the strategy from the Wizard. If you wanted to do something like that you will have to use some fancier self programming.

[Weston]

That's fine with me

Are you willing to show me/tell me how it can be done? Or perhaps point me in a direction where I can learn how it can be done? About time I learned some C, anyhow.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Please see these references for some ideas: http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/...ead.php?t=3475

http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3476

http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3477

[Weston]

Will do

Thanks, Josh.