Differentiate between live and historical bars

[Zapzap]

I am coding a breakout strategy.
It needs a setup and then it waits for breakout.
Problem is that NT handles historical bars as live bars: so it detects a setup that happened BEFORE live time when I start the strategy (since it processes all historical bars too) and enters on the next available live bar.

It is not syncing, it is just evaluating a breakout condition of
if (close[0] is > setupPriceLevel + 10 * TickSize)
which will be true after a historical setup as well.

I hope it's understandable.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hi Zapzap,

Use the Historical bool to determine if your strategy is processing live data or historical data.

For example:

if (Historical)
{
// execute code for historical data
}
else
{
// execute code for live data
}

Below is a link to the help guide on Historical.
http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...historical.htm

[Zapzap]

Thanks. I missed this somehow.

And is there an option for historical AND not backtest?