Exit Positions not working

[glc3344]

I'm trying to figure out why my strategy isnt exiting my open positions when the time conditions are met. The close condition works, just not the time. I'm using a large renko bar for the strategy so rather than use ToTime(Time[0]) which sometimes would close me out an hour or more late due to the time stamp i figured Date.Time.Now.Ticks would work. My coding knowledge is very very limited so i have no clue if this is even right. I know i cannot backtest it, but running it live didnt work either.

// Condition to exit long
if (Close[0] < Close[1] || DateTime.Now.Ticks == 120000 || DateTime.Now.Ticks == 160000)
			{
				ExitLong();
			}

[Radical]

Instead of

DateTime.Now.Ticks == 120000

try something like

ToTime(Time[0]) == 120000

[glc3344]

Would that work for even a large renko bar where the bar formation may take an hour or more to complete?

[Radical]

No, in that case you could try ToTime(DateTime.Now) == 120000

[glc3344]

I restarted the strategy with ToTime(DateTime.Now) == 130000 to see if it would close out positions at 1pm and it still didnt work.

The renko bar is midbar so it doesnt close my order even the time is 1pm.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

To be able to exit intrabar, the CalculateOnBarClose setting needs to 'false' for the script.

[glc3344]

I set CalculateOnBarClose = false and my strategy went haywire and was entering and exiting trades every couple seconds. Not sure where to go from here.

There is no way to flatten all positions based on the system clock?

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

You would then need to look into separating your entry vs exit logic to work on the close of a bar and intrabar as desired - http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...ad.php?t=19387

A alternative would be adding another series, for example a 1 minute to the strategy to be able to access those timestamps via Times - http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h.../nt7/times.htm