Strategies for multiple instruments

[mho792]

Dear experts,

in strategies running as backtest for more than one instrument (like for all of the S&P 500 shares):

Where do I have to place a condition which compare the ticker-symbol for what the strategy is currently running for to values in a pre-defined list using StreamReader?
Is intialize() the appropriate method for it and will this method called again for every instrument?

In the resultscreen of a backtest I won't have symbols in the grid who are excluded by a strategy.
How can I programmatically delete rows in the resultgrid?

And last question...Is it possible to alter a strategy-script using visual studio?
I tried this but had no intellisense for elements in the 'NinjaTrader' namespace.

Thanks for your help in advance,
Mho

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Mho, thanks for the post - first of all you could unfortunately not access the resulting Strategy Analyzer grid programmatically.

What we would support in terms of VS integration would be using it's more detailed debug capabilities through a debug DLL the NS edtor would support working with - http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h..._debugging.htm

It would try putting your statement in OnStartUp() instead as Initialize() could get called multiple times and OnStartUp() would be called once after Initialize() but before the first OnBarUpdate() call then.

Good luck,

[KBJ]

And last question...Is it possible to alter a strategy-script using visual studio?
I tried this but had no intellisense for elements in the 'NinjaTrader' namespace.

You can alter a NinjaTrader strategy or Indicator using Visual Studio (or any editing program) but you must be careful to reopen it with NinjaTrader after writing your changes out from Visual Studio. And the file must be compiled from within NinjaTrader.

Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to get Visual Studio to recognize NinjaTrader's intellisense info. I suspect there's a way to do it but I haven't sent the time to figure it out if it is possible.