how to manage a portfolio

[roland_nt]

I will be loading into the "strategies" tab of the control panel.several strategies, each trading different instruments
Question 1:
Can these use the same ATM Strategy template
Question 2
Although there might be 10 instances of the strategy loaded, at any given moment I don't want more than 4 active positions even though some of the instances might have unfilled limit orders. What is a way to communicate to those instances having unfilled limit orders that those orders should be cancelled because my maximum number of orders has been reached.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello roland_nt,

Thank you for writing in.

Yes, the strategies can all use the same Atm Strategy using AtmStrategyMethods.

There is not a supported way for instances of strategies to communicate with each other.

It is not supported to do so, but you can query the orders and positions with an account. Below is an unsupported tip to point you in the right direction.

foreach (Account acct in Cbi.Globals.Accounts)
{
if (acct.Positions != null)
{
// print information about each position
PositionCollection positions = acct.Positions;
foreach (Position pos in positions)
{
Print(pos.Account.Name + " " + pos.Instrument + " " + pos.MarketPosition + " " + pos.Quantity + " " + pos.AvgPrice);
}
// print information about each order
OrderCollection orders = acct.Orders;
foreach (Order ord in orders)
{
Print(ord.ToString());
}
}

[roland_nt]

how to manage a portfolio

Chelsea.
Thanks ever so much for this tip.
It is stuff I wasn't aware that was possible and you have indeed given me a great direction to follow.
Thanks again.
Roland