Attaching buy/sell order to an indicator

Radano

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#1

Attaching buy/sell order to an indicator

08-04-2021, 09:09 AM

Hello,
Please tell me how I can automate/create a shortcut that attaches and sell or buy order to an indicator on the chart.
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NinjaTrader_ChrisL

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#2

08-04-2021, 09:27 AM

Hi Radano, thanks for writing in.

A hotkey can submit an order automatically, but to attach the order to an indicator you must right click the order>Attach to indicator. The only way to automate this is through a NinjaScript strategy that can submit the order with the indicator value. Our colleague Chelsea has made an example in the strategy builder here:

STOP Loss and Profit target based on ATR - NinjaTrader Support Forum

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/forum/ninjatrader-8/strategy-development/1142876-stop-loss-and-profit-target-based-on-atr#post1142942

Hello support team, I have 2 dataseries, a 1minute to detect the ATR value. Now I would like to set the stoploss and profit target based on the actual ATR Value Example: Stoploss 2xATR Profittarget 3xATR value 1. How can this be done with builder, I have no coding experience 2. Later I would like to have the possibility to

Kind regards,
-ChrisL
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