How to check condition and execute trade at strategy startup

[SamIam]

I have a strategy to place long trade if price cross above 13 MA and go short if price cross below 13 MA and it works perfectly. What I would like to do is to have the strategy check the position of price and place a trade immediately at the time I start the strategy. So if at the time of strategy startup, price is above the 13 MA and enter a long trade and if it is below 13 MA then enter short position and I want this to be only a one time check/execution and then want the strategy to follow the script of cross above and below on bar updates. Can someone please help?

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

If I understand you may want to try something like this:

if( ...your ma conditions... && !Historical && myfirsttradeflag)
{
//place oder here
myfirsttradeflag = false;
}

Let me know if you have any questions:

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