Limiting simultaneous orders

[brucelevy]

I have 10 instruments enabled on the strategy. I want to limit it to only trade one contract on up to 3 of the 10 strategy's at any given time. Are there settings in ninajtrader for this?

[sledge]

I have 10 instruments enabled on the strategy. I want to limit it to only trade one contract on up to 3 of the 10 strategy's at any given time. Are there settings in ninajtrader for this?

Setting EntriesPerDirection = 1 will limit to 1 contract.

I'm not aware of anything in NT7 that will allow you to limit to 3 out of 10 running strategies.
You'll probably have to program this, with a static variable to count how many entries you perform, and if there are 3 - do not enter long/short.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10795502/what-is-the-use-of-static-variable-in-cwhen-to-use-itwhy-cant-i-declare-the-s

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello brucelevy,

Thank you for your post.

Seldge is correct, the UI allows you to limit the strategy instance but nothing over all running strategies. So as sledge suggested you would need you own tracking for this.