Check the no. of trades in Ninjascript.

[Imran]

Hi

I would like to check in real time, how many trades are running in the background. Is any syntax is available for Ninjascript.

e.g : if ( no. of trades < 2 )
{
Buy....
}

Thanks
Imran.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Imran, can you please clarify what you mean, trades running on the account or in the NinjaScript strategy you're currently working with?

[Imran]

Hi Bertrand

Yes trades running on the live account. Suppose I have applied two strategies on the 100 instruments and I want to restrict the trades, on the basis of number of live trades.

e.g : if ( no. of trades < 2 )
{
Buy.....
}

Like this but here restrict the trades on the basis of Account cash value.
protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
// Checks to see if the account has more than $25000

if (GetAccountValue(AccountItem.CashValue) > 25000)
// Do something;
}

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Thanks for the clarifications, there's unfortunately no supported NinjaScript method to request this info, as the individual script would only have access per default to its own positions monitored / taken. One approach could be making a MultiSeries script out of your strategies running so one script would be working with all your instruments and thus would know its Positions

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

Via the undocumented / unsupported account object you could also 'play' with this idea -

if (FirstTickOfBar)
track = 0;

if (Historical == false)
{
foreach (Account acct in Cbi.Globals.Accounts)
{
if (acct.Positions != null && acct.Name == "Sim101")
{
PositionCollection positions = acct.Positions;

foreach (Position pos in positions)
track++;
}
}
}

You can then include a check to the realtime generated track variable following your account positions (here on Sim101) - however this could not be backtested then in contrast to a MultiSeries script.