Account value and Cash Value at a time

[dastaan]

Hi NT,
I am struggling finding Account value in NT.
The strategy that I am coding, utilizes account value in order to calculate position size.

I am using this function "Account.Get(AccountItem.CashValue, Currency.UsDollar)"

However it is not working as expected!!! ( Returning same value throughout the backtest.)

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello dastaan,

Thank you for your post.

There is no Account when running a backtest and therefore Account.Get should not be used when backtesting a strategy. Instead, you could use variables to track a Cash Balance followed by using that to control how many "funds" your strategy can backtest though.

Additionally, you may get information about your trades using the Trade object. Please see the help guide link below for more information.

Trade - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help.../nt8/trade.htm

Please let us know if we may assist further.

[dastaan]

Hi Brandon,

I see that this is a work around, However I am looking for a Generic solution which works the same on backtesting and live deployment.

Do you think there is a way to do so ?

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello dastaan,

Thank you for your note.

Something you could do is use IsInStrategyAnalyzer to determine if the strategy is running in the Strategy Analyzer. When the strategy is running in the strategy analyzer, you could pull the initial value from the Account and store that value into a variable. Then you would use that variable throughout the Strategy Analyzer run as suggested in post #2. Otherwise, when the strategy is not running in the Strategy Analyzer your logic could use Account.Get as described in post #1.

IsInStrategyAnalyzer - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...egyanalyer.htm

Please let us know if we may assist further.