GetAccountValue = 0 Why?

[Aussiemike]

Hi,

Trying this Get Account call in a few places, but always returning zero.

I've read that it returns 0 for historical, so how do i get it to look at current?

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{

Print(GetAccountValue(AccountItem.CashValue));


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Output window is zero. I also have this inside my "if" statement that decides to take a trade, but zero there as well.

Can anyone point out what i'm doing wrong?

Cheers

[koganam]

Hi,

Trying this Get Account call in a few places, but always returning zero.

I've read that it returns 0 for historical, so how do i get it to look at current?

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{

Print(GetAccountValue(AccountItem.CashValue));


**************************
Output window is zero. I also have this inside my "if" statement that decides to take a trade, but zero there as well.

Can anyone point out what i'm doing wrong?

Cheers

That function only returns a value if you are running realtime. There is no workaround for using it in historical backtest or any kind of situation that is using historical data only.

[Aussiemike]

Thanks again.

That's a shame they have nothing for backtesting...

I've found a money management example someone posted so i'll have to tweak that to get something working

Cheers