Identification of Execution Details

[hcoffin]

My strategy needs to know the price, quantity and the kind of order that was executed. I understand that "execution.price" tells me the executed price and "execution.Quantity" give me the number of contracts executed, but how can I tell if the execution was for a "long entry" or a "short entry"? Perhaps the "execution.Quantity" does this by the sign of the quantity (1 = long, -1 = short). Can you straighten me out on this please?

Thank you.

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

Hi Hcoffin,

Thank you for your post.

You can use Print(execution.Order.OrderAction) to print out the type of order that was placed, such as a Buy, Sell, Sell Short, or Buy to Cover.

Below are links on the IOrder and IExecution -
http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...tml?iorder.htm
http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...iexecution.htm

Let me know if I can be of further assistance.

[hcoffin]

Clarification Please

Thank you for the quick response.

Please tell me if I am correct on the following statements:

1. OrderAction.Buy is a Long Entry Order (EnterLong)
2. OrderAction.BuyToCover is a Long Exit Order (ExitLong)
3. OrderAction.Sell is a Short Exit Order (ExitShort)
4. OrderAction.SellShort is a Short Entry Order (EnterShort)

Thank you in advance for your help.

[hcoffin]

Additional Question

I have attempted to create code to do what my previous question was asking about, I got the following error messages when compiling:

I set up a user-variable: private int OrderAction = 0;

Within the OnExecution() method, I entered the following:

if(execution.Order.OrderAction == OrderAction.Buy)
{
OrderAction = 1;
}

When compiling, the following error message came up:

'int' does not contain a definition for 'Buy' and no extension method 'Buy' accepting a first argument of type 'int' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Can you see what is wrong with my code?

Thanks again,

[koganam]

I have attempted to create code to do what my previous question was asking about, I got the following error messages when compiling:

I set up a user-variable: private int OrderAction = 0;

Within the OnExecution() method, I entered the following:

if(execution.Order.OrderAction == OrderAction.Buy)
{
OrderAction = 1;
}

When compiling, the following error message came up:

'int' does not contain a definition for 'Buy' and no extension method 'Buy' accepting a first argument of type 'int' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Can you see what is wrong with my code?

Thanks again,

Rename your variable: "OrderAction" is a reserved word.