Simultaneously opening opposing positions

[koschba]

Hey there,

is it (somehow) possible with Ninjatrader to have a long and a short position at the same time (and by that I don't mean having two "opposing" limit orders pending, but to actually and really have a long and a short position on the market)

... and within the same strategy (which is the, I suppose, the only sane way to deal with the interdependecies between the two)?

It's quite clear that it won't work with the "managed" approach but I was hoping to get this done with the unmanaged approach. SubmitOrder() has four different order types so at first I was confident that there was a way to explicitly have NT do this.

E.g.

[...]
longEntry = SubmitOrder(0, OrderAction.Buy, ...);
shortEntry = SubmitOrder(0, OrderAction.SellShort, ...);
[...]

goes both long and short and thus should be treated differently than

[...]
longEntry = SubmitOrder(0, OrderAction.Buy, ...);
shortEntry = SubmitOrder(0, OrderAction.Sell, ...);
[...]

At least when backtesting, it doesn't make a difference. Having such a code fragment in place, NT immediately goes flat again (result: Profit = Zero $$$)

I'd appreciate any advice about this. Am I going about this the wrong way or is this (currently) not possible with NT?

TIA!

[NinjaTrader_AdamP]

koschba,

This is only possible if you open 2 accounts and trade a long order to one, and a short order to another.

Please let me know if I may assist further.