Showing historical executions on a chart

[onnb1]

hi -

I add a strategy to a chart.
Can I have NT show historical (virtual) executions on that chart?

Onn

[koganam]

hi -

I add a strategy to a chart.
Can I have NT show historical (virtual) executions on that chart?

Onn

That is the default behavior, provided that you have not disabled Historical processing. To actually see the executions on the chart, you have to enable them using the DataSeries PropertyGrid for the chart.

[onnb1]

thanks for the quick reply koganam

I've been looking around for this
I have some foggy memory of seeing this a long time ago - how do you enable/disable historical processing?

[koganam]

thanks for the quick reply koganam

I've been looking around for this
I have some foggy memory of seeing this a long time ago - how do you enable/disable historical processing?

All bars have a Boolean property, called Historical. You act on it.

So, for example the branch statement:

if (Historical) return;

will cause any Historical bar that meets it to bypass execution.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello onnb1,

Thank you for your post and thank you to koganam for answering your posts here.

The historical executions will show if the strategy is designed to run over historical data. This is where koganam's suggestion of the Historical bool comes in to play. If you check for Historical == false before processing the strategy code in the OnBarUpdate() method you can prevent historical executions. There is no other option to disable the plotting of the strategy's historical executions, the only way would be to prevent the executions as a whole.

Information on Historical can be found at the following link: http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...historical.htm