AddOn Development: autoselected ATM strategy

[merengano]

Hello everyone. Sometimes it's a distraction to apply an ATM strategy on a chart. I want to develop an Add On that applies an ATM strategy, exactly as the current functionality under Positions tab of the Control Center where the user basically selects the position > apply ATM strategy >[list of strategies].

The function I found that I could use is StartATMStrategy() https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...gy_methods.htm

The problem is this note:

Critical: The "name" argument on the CreateOrder() method MUST be named "Entry" for the ATM Strategy to be started successfully.

When the user manually opens a position the order's name is an empty string "", so obviously it gets rejected if I try to pass it on to StartATMStrategy().

Also tried to modify the order's name, but didn't work. There must be a flag to void name modification or something.

Any ideas of how I could achieve this?

thanks!

[NinjaTrader_Kate]

Hello merengano,

Thank you for your post.

You'd want to create your own button for the user to press that when pressed, submits an order using StartAtmStrategy() with the order name being Entry.

An example of this may be found in our AddOn Framework NinjaScript Basic from this page of our help guide:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/addon_development_overview.htm

The behavior of the buttons when pressed is around line 930 in the code there.

Please let us know if we may be of further assistance to you.

[merengano]

Ok, that's a good example.