Only take trades when flat BUT on historical trades

[facuevasm]

Hello guys,

Im using PositionAccount.MarketPosition == MarketPosition.Flat on real time trades and is working perfectly. Same is not happening on historical, and I want to simulate my strategy behaviour as if real, but this is not happening. Each time there is a new signal on historical, current position is CLOSED and it goes in the other direction. How I can disable to take a new position if market is not flat but on historical trades?

[NinjaTrader_Jim]

Hello facuevasm,

Thanks for your first post!

PositionsAccount would only be modified for trades submitted to the account live. Submitting an order during historical processing will change the strategy's position and will not change the account position.

You can use the Position object instead of PositionsAccount which will reflect the strategy position and the strategy position will change with each historical or realtime trade that is placed.

If you want the strategy to ignore creating a historical position, you can ignore historical processing with if (State == State.Historical) return;

If you want to have the strategy inherit the account position, you can follow the example attached which uses the Unmanaged Approach.

More information on Strategy vs. Account position and start behaviors are included below.

Strategy vs. Account Position — https://ninjatrader.com/support/help..._account_p.htm

Start Behaviors — https://ninjatrader.com/support/help..._positions.htm

If this does not resolve your inquiry, could you elaborate on what you would like the strategy to do with historical and realtime processing?

We look forward to assisting.

[facuevasm]

Thank you Jim!!! This solved my problem. I just add Position.MarketPosition == MarketPosition.Flat to my condition to go long or short, and now my strategy waits until flat on historical bars until generates a new position. :=) Thanks again!!