integrating addon buttons for entering trades

[ballboy11]

My objective is to have buttons to set up my orders submitted through an atm or fixed stop or target profit. My question is when creating a button such as buy bid on chart trader, is is possible to create this? Is it an indicator, strategy or addon

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello ballboy11,

Yes that is possible, it depends on what kind of orders you wanted to submit. If you want to submit strategy based orders you would use a strategy and the standard strategy order methods. If you wanted to build a custom tool that supports manual orders you could instead use an indicator and the addon framework.

There is a quick sample that shows adding some general buttons to the chart control that can be used for testing, this could be used from an indicator or strategy. https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ub=usercontrol

You can also see the following post for more complex examples involving the chart trader or window: https://ninjatrader.com/support/foru...t=1#post499327

If you used an indicator you could see the following section, keep in mind the addon account code should not be used in a strategy for order placement/management. https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ount_class.htm

One other note here is that if you use any NinjaScript properties like Close[0] in a button handler, you need to use a TriggerCustomEvent to surround that code. https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...=triggercustom

//this goes in the button event handler
TriggerCustomEvent(o =>
{
// your code in here
}, null);

I look forward to being of further assistance.

[ballboy11]

Thank you. now is there an example where I can put the PnL on the SideBar. I did get what I needed to work and all I need is to put a couple of parameter text boxes in order to place quantity and ticks for stop loss and or profit targets

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello ballboy11,


There is not a specific sample for PnL that I am aware of which puts it in the side bar. The chart trader is just a WPF control so to add anything else you would have to add other WPF controls. If you needed PNL that would likely be a TextBlock or one of the text based controls in WPF.

There is not a specific sample for PnL