Trailing Max Drawdown

[davydhnz]

The Accounts window allows to show the Trailing max drawdown.



How can I access the value of that from the currently selected account in the chart?

I want to be able to display it on the chart with OnRender.

I know this

        myAccount = Account.All.FirstOrDefault(a => a.Name == "Sim101");

Will get me the Sim account, but how do I get the currently selected account



Thank you in advance!

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello davydhnz,

You can use the accounts Get method to get account item values. You can find a list of available options in the page linked below.

https://developer.ninjatrader.com/docs/desktop/get

https://developer.ninjatrader.com/docs/desktop/accountitem

[davydhnz]

Thank you for your reply.

I went through both pages and couldn't find.



If it's not 'officially' supported, is there some unofficial code?
Thank you.

Hello davydhnz,

You can use the accounts Get method to get account item values. You can find a list of available options in the page linked below.

https://developer.ninjatrader.com/docs/desktop/get

https://developer.ninjatrader.com/do...op/accountitem

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello davydhnz,

While that is currently not documented it may work to use: AccountItem.TrailingMaxDrawdown

[davydhnz]

Hello davydhnz,

While that is currently not documented it may work to use: AccountItem.TrailingMaxDrawdown

Well I walked into that one But thanks.

The only thing I can't work out is how to get the currently selected chart account.
I can specify the account using

myAccount = Account.All.FirstOrDefault(a => a.Name == "Account34924837");

But is there a way to automatically get the currently selected account in the chart?

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello davydhnz,

You can see the following sample for a way to do that.

https://forum.ninjatrader.com/forum/ninjatrader-8/strategy-development/97972-determing-nt8-chart-trader-selected-account?postcount=2#post787509

[davydhnz]

Thank you heaps!

[davydhnz]

Last question. You've been very helpful. I've got everything working except one thing.

Currently I'm using ChartControl.MouseLeftButtonDown as a trigger for when to check the account for an update.
I don't really want to constantly call dispatcher like the sample code you provided which does it constantly in onbarupdate.

Is there a ChartControl.something for when you release the mouse on a list. e.g. the list in


ChartControl.MouseLeftButtonDown doesn't detected this, it only detects if you click where the bars are in the chart.

Thanks again!

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello davydhnz,

There would not be a event for just the list inside the left mouse button event, that event will only detect mouse down events but not be specific as to what was clicked. Generally if you are using UI controls you would place your code that uses them inside the dispatcher to get a new value from the ui control before using it. That way all of the code is executed at the same time when the UI thread gives access to allow for the Ui to be used.