Preventing Two Strategies From Taking The Same Position

[The Big D]

I have two strategies trading the same instrument (CL), both from the long side. Because of the nature of the strategies, they rarely take positions at the same time. However, for risk reduction purposes I would like to insure that that if one has gone long, the other never enters a position. Is there a test I can perform that will tell me if the other strategy is already long?

I realize I could fold both strategies into one and then just check

Position.MarketPosition = MarketPosition.Flat

but given how they work I'd much rather keep them separate.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Welcome to our forums here - unfortunately strategies would not communicate with eachother so a check for the market position from outside the invidual strategy is not possible...one workaround would be writing the current position to a textfile and then accessing this for your checks. Working with txt files is laid out in our reference samples section - http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...ead.php?t=3477