How to set NT8 not to trade historical bars

[ezrakoper]

Hello I am coding a trading strategy that focus of managing and holding a trade after it got a buy/sell signal for another software component. When being connect to live data feed and enable the strategy, many time i will find myself with historical long/short position. If i am not running a simulation then i would like to start my account flat.

For this i am planning to add to the strategy a checkbox if to trade historical bars or not.

I am just wondering why there is no such option in every strategy form before enabling it.

so is there already such an option somewhere instructing NT8 not to trade historical bars?

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello ezrakoper,

Thanks for your post.

You can skip historical bar processing in this manner (In OnBarUpdate()):

if (YourBool == true && State != State.Realtime) return; // do not process below this line if bool checked to skip historical data and not realtime data