Strategy and marketposition

[maxpi]

Does Position.MarketPosition return what the strategy thinks the position is or does it read the position from the TWS?

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Strategy Position. Please see the following Tip - http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/v...ead.php?t=4033

[Xkaern]

A somewhat related question:
I haven't programmed anything in a long time, so I'm refreshing all this while learning C# and NS... so I'm still just testing out on sim accounts at the moment.
If my strategy only enters a trade when MarketPosition is flat, is it possible to for example, open 2 different charts, and have the same strategy run simultaneously on two different time frames of the same market (ie, both 1 and 5 min ES). Or will MarketPosition for the 1 min time frame return Long when a Long is taken on the 5 min time frame and thus not be able to take 2 trades at the same time on different time frames? Or do the strategy positions not overlap being as they are run separately?

On a different note: I want my trade entry to be based only on Bar Close. If the entry is based on an indicator that only updates on Bar Close, is it then possible to run the Script with Update on Bar Close false, so that I can update the stop loss intra-bar, but the entry should still remain only based on bar close due to the indicator's settings that are part of the entry trigger?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Yes you can run strategies on the same market on an infinite number of charts. The strategy positions do not overlap. They are unique for each instance of a running strategy.

Indicators called within a strategy will inherit the CalculateOnBarClose property from the running strategy. Should you wish to run your strategy tick by tick but only take signals on the close of the bar, use the following property.

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

Keep in mind, during a backtest, strategies are only evaluated at the close of a bar.