Anyway to detect when strategy is on BackTest

[Edward Kunafi]

Hello Support,

I read the explanation on Historical. When the statement If (Historical) return(); is inserted into a strategy, it obviously does nothing while in backtesting. This means I have to maintain two strategy, and each update I have to ensure both are updated. It is not hard but is an annoying extra step. Is there a way to detect that a strategy is on Backtest hence use historical data, while on going live it will not run strategy on Historical portion of data.

Thanks.

Regards.

EdwardK.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hello Edward,

Thank you for your post. Unfortunately accessing this is not supported. I suggest adding a public bool input for this, that you could set depending on where you are running the strategy.

Easiest way to create public inputs is through the wizard, but can also see this link for help with adding these to code.

if (runOnBacktest)
{
if (Historical)
return;
}