Best Practices for Chart Buttons Click Events

[Rainmakersg]

Hi,

I refer to the sample code for drawing buttons on the chart:
https://ninjatraderecosystem.com/use...jE3MjQxNTUwNTk.

Basically, the buttons are drawn within:

            else if (State == State.Historical) 

which runs a separate method:

        private void OnButtonClick 

, which triggers a boolean longButtonClicked to true if the buy button is clicked.

In OnBarUpdate, every bar update checks for the conditions whereby longButtonClicked is true, and bar conditions relating to High[0], High[1] and Low[1] are met. If so, a long position is entered.



Say for my situation, I run Caculate.OnPriceChange, and I do not wish to check for any bar conditions. When I click on the Buy button, I want the long position to be entered as soon as possible.

Do I still need to route the logic through OnBarUpdate?


If I just enter long from:

        private void OnButtonClick 

and bypassing OnBarUpdate altogether, would it cause any problems?

What is the best practice?


Appreciate your assistance.

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello Rainmakersg,

In thatt use case you can just put the order entry code directly into the button event handler. The only item to consider would be if you need prices for orders like for a limit price, if so you need to put that code inside of a TriggerCustomEvent



private void OnButtonClick()
{
TriggerCustomEvent(o =>
{
//your code here
}, null);
}

https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...tsub=TriggerCu stomEvent