Strategy Builder Help

[p.lozanski]

Hi there,

This seems like it should be super simple, but I am having a hard time getting a strategy I am developing to work in the Strategy Builder. The setup is:

Setup:
FastEMA below SlowEMA
PSAR below FastEMA
Price above PSAR

Entry:
When price touches PSAR, enter short via market order at PSAR

I've attached an image of the setup, and a screenshot of my strategy builder. If someone can offer some help I would really appreciate it.

Thanks!

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello p.lozanski,

The screenshot appears to show what you have described, except for the last condition 'When price touches PSAR'.

Buy orders buy on the ask, but you could also use the Close to get the last. You could check that the price is within 1 tick of the ParabolicSAR() indicator.

Use prints (in the Strategy Builder) to find out why the condition is not evaluating as true.

Print the time, print the EMA(10), print the EMA(20), print the ParabolicSAR(0.02, 0.2, 0.02), print the GetCurrentBid().

Below is a link to a forum post that includes a link to a video labelled 'Debugging using prints with the Strategy Builder'.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/forum/ninjatrader-7/strategy-development-aa/99209-date-conditions-not-working?p=791121#post791121

Save the output to a text file and attach this with your next post.

I will be happy to assist with analyzing the output.