How to Prevent Strategy From Starting Early?

[ronaldgreene828]

I open a day chart and begin my strategy. However, the chart loads the entire day and my strategy begins at the start of the day. This interferes with the real time function of the strategy. How can I have the strategy function only in real time?

When I load the chart, if I choose to load one day or I enter zero, it still loads the current day.

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello ronaldgreene828,

The most simple way is to add a condition to check the state. If you want to only work in realtime you can add the following condition in OnBarUpdate:

if(State != State.Realtime) return;

If you are using the builder you would need to add a condition into each set checking that the Misc -> CurrentState equals Misc -> State -> Realtime.


I look forward to being of further assistance.

[ronaldgreene828]

I'm using the strategy builder. Thanks very much for the advice, it works now in real time only.

[ronaldgreene828]

Hello, this has worked well. At times I had to remove "State = State Realtime" from a set to prevent errors when running a strategy. Can you tell me where this line should not be included? Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello ronaldgreene828,

What errors were you seeing? it would be hard to say what the problem was without that detail.

I look forward to being of further assistance.

[ronaldgreene828]

I found out that I wasn't using the right signal name in some of the exits. So I found the problem. Thanks