How to make strategy ready to enter orders at start

[westofpluto]

I have noticed that in my strategy, if I enable the strategy it will show a bunch of simulated historical trades on my chart, right up until the first live bar. If the strategy theoretically would have opened a trade just before the first live bar, then my strategy does not open any trades - it waits fro that simulated trade to close. But that simulated trade never seems to close - even if it hits what would have been my stoploss or take profit, the strategy stays in this untradeable state - not simulated exit ever occurs.

What I want the strategy to do is ignore any simulated past trades and just start trading from a flat state. I'm sure there is some NT setting to make this happen. Please tell me what to do here.

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello westofpluto,

Thanks for your post.

You can "skip" historical processing with if (State == State.Historical) return;

Reference: (second example): https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...nt8/?state.htm

If you intend to run your strategy in the strategy analyzer then you would need to comment that line of code out or create a user input bool that you can change when you apply the strategy to enable or disable the use of historical data/trades.

[JoeF1953]

Paul, is there any way to do this using the Strategy Builder? I like the builder but once the code is unlocked then I can't use it anymore. I tried several things in the builder to say if (State==State.Historical) but no success. State is in the builder menu, but the only options for State on the left side is Historical, Transition, and Real time.
Suggestions??

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello JoeF1953,

Thanks for your post and welcome to the NinjaTrader forums!

Yes, you can and you are on the right track!

In each set, add the condition Misc>Current State equals Misc>state Real Time.

This condition means that it will only execute the set when the bars are Real time, so there would be no execution on historical bars.

[JoeF1953]

Wooo - Hooo! Thank you Paul!