Help with Switching States

[kelliot]

Please see the attached doc for details:

in set 1 I set check if in trade and set variables 1-5 to 0

in set 2 I set trading time to 800 am to 4pm
check to see if in a trade
if variable 1 =0
the high is greater than or equal to the upper keltner channel
then
draw a blue vertical line
set variable 1 to 1
set variable 2 to 1

in set 3 check to see if in trade
if variable 1 = 1
the close is less than or equal to the keltner channel midline
then
draw a red vertical line
set variable 1 back to 0

I would think that this would draw a blue line when conditions were met followed by a red line when the second condition was met. I should see repeating blue/red lines

Its not drawing the reds and shouldn't draw a clusters of blues. How do I fix this?

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello,
Thank you for the question.

Looking through the images and description I do not see anything apparent as to what might be happening. Without manually recreating everything you have I am unable to see what is happening.

If you wouldn't mind attaching the strategy file so that I could run it on my end and see what is happening I would be happy to look it over.

The file its self would be located at \Documents\NinjaTrader 7\bin\Custom\Strategy


Please let me know if I may be of additional assistance.

[kelliot]

attached strategy

see attached

[kelliot]

I am currently working on this in the wizard

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello,

I was able to take a look at the attached strategy.

It looks like the problem is that variable1 is constantly being set to 0 because you are always flat as there currently is not order logic.
The strategy does not start a position ever so variable 1 is briefly set as the blue vertical line is plotted then immediately set back to 0.

If you remove the If variable 1 == 1 from set 3 this script works.

You will need to provide additional logic for your orders in order to use the Position.MarketPosition as a valid check, otherwise you are always in a flat position.

Please let me know if I may be of additional assistance.