Strategy Identification within NinjaTrader

[cmt_Robert]

I've recently had a couple of experiences where NinjaTrader has lost communications with my broker just as an order was being placed which has resulted in order rejection and strategy termination due to duplicate orders. When this occurs, NinjaTrader is good enough to provide me with a notification similar to the following:

Strategy 'StratpSAR/b9cbae14a4234a15af3b8c17b070f264' submitted an order that generated the following error 'OrderRejected'. Strategy has sent cancel requests, attempted to close the position and
terminated itself.

I have two questions:

1) How can I derive the "b9cbae..." part of that strategy definition?

2) Is that uniquely linked to a specific invocation of the stategy?

I typically have several invocations of a strategy running (either against different timeframes or different instruments) and I'd like to be able to know for my logs which one is implicated.

Thanks!

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

Cmt_Robert,

Thank you for your post.

The Strategy ID is created with each new instance of the strategy, from either the Charts or Strategies Tab , in the local Database file.


Additionally, you can access the ID with -

this.ID;

Let me know if I can be of further assistance.

[cmt_Robert]

Thanks Cal. I'll have to look more closely at my logs. My earlier review seemed to suggest that, where a strategy was invoked more than once (based on the same compiled code) it had the same "suffix".

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

When you say invoked are you referring to Enable and Disable?

[cmt_Robert]

When you say invoked are you referring to Enable and Disable?

I'm referring to the process of selecting "New Strategy..." and then defining a set of parameters for that new strategy, repeating that process for several variations of a particular compiled strategy (with different time frames or instruments or other parameters) and then enabling them so that they are running concurrently.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Thanks Robert, yes we would expect that id to be unique per instance you created. If you disable the script and then re-enable (with adding it new), so the actual instance would be reused, the id will stay the same though.