How to determine how many bars an order has been open?

[boreland]

How to determine how many bars an order has been open?

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello boreland,

Thanks for your post.

You can use the method BarsSinceEntryExecution(). Please see the help guide for key details and example: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...yexecution.htm

Alternatively, if you are placing market orders which usually fill immediately, you can create an integer counter that is set to zero when you place the order and then you increment it on each new bar. Otherwise if using limit orders that may not fill right away you can check to see if the order is filled in OnOrderUpdate(), OnExecutionUpdate(), or OnPositionUpdate() and reset the class level variable integer counter there.