tagging orders with wildcards

[trail]

I have a strategy that gives multiple signals and orders.
Till now I named all the orders the same, because I use only 1 way to handle all the Profit Targets, Stoploss and Trails.

I now want to give the entry orders different names (tags) but allways with, lets say, the first 10 characters the same. Then follows a more specific tag.

I use NT7 and a Managed Approach.

My questions:
1 Is it possible to work with different order tags but handle them (SL, TP, Trail) in 1 way, using wildcards to adress all the different order tags?
2 Is it wise to work this way or is there a better way?

Thanks in advance,
Anne

[NinjaTrader_ZacharyG]

Hello Anne,

Thank you for writing in.

There is no built-in way to reference an order by the use of a wild card. The entire signal name of the order must be referenced.

What you could do, however, is store each signal name string into a list and then just iterate through the list in order to grab each individual signal name string.

As a quick example:

private IOrder order1 = null, order2 = null, order3 = null;
List<string> signalNames;

protected override void Initialize()
{
    signalNames = new List<string>();
}

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
    if (order1 == null)
    {
        order1 = EnterLong("long1");
        signalNames.Add(order1.Name);
    }

    if (order2 == null)
    {
        order2 = EnterLong("long2");
        signalNames.Add(order2.Name);
    }

    if (order3 == null)
    {
        order3 = EnterLong("long3");
        signalNames.Add(order3.Name);
    }
}

You can then iterate through the list to do something.

The example below will just exit by utilizing the signal name for each entry:

foreach (string signalName in signalNames)
{
     ExitLong(signalName);
}

[trail]

Ok, thanks.

Without having tried, is it possible to adress the order tag by a variable?
For instance:
EnterShort(QuantShort1, Shortnr1);
instead of
EnterShort(QuantShort1, "Shortnr1");

And what are the possibilities in NT8 about more dynamic adress orders (and tags)?

[NinjaTrader_ZacharyG]

Hello trail,

You will be able to pass a variable containing a string.

NinjaTrader 8 will still need the entire signalName when referring to orders.