Performance.AllTrades help

[laces2]

I am programming into my strategy that after 3 losers, the strategy stops trading for an X amount of hours. From what i have been able to gather, the best way to do this is through Performance.AllTrades but whenever i try to do anything with Performance it causes my strategy to not work at all. Even Trade trade1 = Performance.AllTrades[0]; causes nothing to happen. And from my understanding the most recent trade would be the largest number so to access it i would put Trade trade1 = Performance.AllTrades[Performance.AllTrades.Count]; Am i doing something wrong, is there a better way to see if the last 3 trades were losers? any help would be greatly appreciated.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

laces2, you likely want to access the realtime trades collection for this (Performance.RealtimeTrades) - are there any errors the log tab as you attempt to run your strategy with the references to the Performance class added?

Please see also this sample we have dealing with the topic in detail -

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=19289

[laces2]

ok, i figured it out. i had to add a check to make sure that trades are in the collection.