Trade Alternate Instrument from Strategy Conditions

[hbmiles2000]

Greetings,

I am wondering how I could use one of my existing strategies, developed to be used on 1 particular instrument but have it trigger entries/exits on a completely different instrument, hopefully without changing too much. Is there a way to specify the instrument in the entry/exit methods?

Thank you,
hbmiles2000

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

hbmiles2000, yes what you look for here is a MultiInstrument strategy, a working example is preinstalled with NT and it's named 'SampleMultiInstrument' strategy.

The framework used is explained in depth here in our helpguide :

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

[hbmiles2000]

Thanks Bertrand-one more question that I cannot find the answer to in the documentation - where & how do you define the signal name you can use to enter/exit various instruments within the context of bars updates for other instruments?
Thx again,
hbmiles2000

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Please take as example this Market order entry overload we have :

EnterLong(int barsInProgressIndex, int quantity, string signalName)

The barsInProgressIndex is the bars series you submit to, if you Add() for example MSFT to your strategy and enter 1 as the index (the second instrument, it starts counting from 0) then you would submit to MSFT instead. The signalName is just a string you could configure to your liking and potentially add the instrument name here as well to differentiate.