Account Position

[cshep]

I'm trying to find way to retrieve my IB account position through NT. For example, I want to know how many ES contracts long or short my IB account is.

The GetAccountValue() method doesn't allow me to do this.

How can I retrieve my account position?


Thanks,

CS

[NinjaTrader_Brett]

Hello,

Thanks for your forum post.

NinjaTrader is not designed to allow for this. As NinjaTrader is designed to allow for multiple strategies to run on the same account and instrument. As such there is no NinjaTrader function to query your direct account position, there is only the internal strategy position.

When you start a NinjaScript strategy you must choose to have it auto sync your account to the strategy or sync it manually. This is descibed how to do this below.

Strategy Position vs. Account Position:

http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/vb/showthread.php?t=4033

1st solution:
You can include the following statement in your code to avoid the strategy to be calculated on historical data.
// Only run on real-time data
if (Historical)
return;
Add the statement to the top of OnBarUpdate()

2nd solution:
You can set 'On starting a real-time strategy' to 'Wait until flat before executing live'.
This option can be found at Tools-->Options-->Strategies-->NinjaScript-tab.

3rd solution, would be submitting manual orders to sync the strategy and account positions described in the link

4th solution, would be to enable Sync account position to true.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/syncing_account_positions.htm

Let me know if I can be of further assistance.