"Flag" Ability in Code

[brirob14]

Hello. I am fairly new to NT and this forum.

I am a programmer and am trying to figure out how to set a "global" flag in my code that does not get updated on every bar. For instance, I am writing code to scale out of a position and I want to set a "flag" once my first target is hit so that I can use an if statement to check for my bool "flag" setting and if it is true (1st target has been hit); I will ignore this exit and the code will continue to check my next exit logic.

In my mind I need to declare this variable outside of the OnBarUpdate section but when I try to do this I get compilation errors (i.e. OnStartUp).

I hope this all makes sense; can someone help me please? I have searched the NT help guide and all over this forum and I can't find anything related to what I'm trying to do. Any ideas?

Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

Hello Brirob14,

Thank you for your post and welcome to the Forums!

If you are looking to get the fill of the order then I would suggest tracking that in either OnOrderUpdate() or OnExecution so that you can then get the fill and change your flag the way you need to.

OnExecution()
OnOrderUpdate()