Trades being counted prior to strategy being enabled . . .

[ATMtrader0001]

I have a Strategy that is set to only place trades during specific times and limits the number of trades per day. I have found that when I start the strategy after
the scheduled start time that when the strategy is enabled that if the strategy would have placed orders prior to when it was started that it counts those trades
as real trades.

How do I get around this?

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello ATMtrader0001,

Thanks for your post.

If you are using your own trade counter variable, you could use a bool that you create and set to true by default and compare that bool along with comparing the State to State.Realtime and when both are true to then reset your trade counter and set the bool to false to prevent further resets. For example:

if (State == State.Realtime && myBool)
{
myTradeCounter = 0; // reset for real time
myBool = false; // prevent further resets
}

[ATMtrader0001]

Paul,

As always, thank you. You are a wealth of knowledge.