How to know whether strategy is running real time / live?

[Skechers]

Hello,

I have a cumulative variable that gets added with metrics as the strategy executes.

It works, but it counts metrics that occurs before the strategy goes and executes live.

Is there a method that can tell whether the strategy is running live?

Many Thanks, Caesar.

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi Caesar, thanks for posting. When the strategy transitions from a historical to RealTime state it will go through the Transition state. See here for the documentation:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/NT%20HelpGuide%20English.html?onstatechange.htm

State.Transition is where you would set a boolean variable from false to true to signal the strategy has gone into RealTime state.

Kind regards,
-ChrisL

[Skechers]

Many Thanks Chris!