{NinjaScript} NT8 - get Closed Trades

[nandocabrera87]

Hello Everyone,
I have a requeriment that I dont know how to solve.
I need to acces trade updates to know when a trade market is closed (by profut target, StopLoss or any case), and ask if that last trade closed was profitable or was a lose.
Could you give me some code idea?
Thank you so much

[NinjaTrader_Kate]

Hello nandocabrera87,

Thank you for your post.

To clarify a bit, are you looking to do this in the context of an automated strategy, or are you looking to get an update for any trade applied to the account, including manually placed trades?

If it's within the context of a strategy, that's fairly simple. You can access the strategy's TradeCollection, get the last trade, and see if it was profitable or not. Here's an example from our help guide showing how to determine if the last trade was profitable or not - in this example the strategy will stop after three losing trades until the next session:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/stopping_a_strategy_after_cons.htm

Getting this information for any trades on the account is a little more complicated, and requires the use of add-on code to get the account and access that information.

First you would have to track trades which are made by pairing executions together. It would not be supported to access the NinjaTrader database to extract trades. To track executions, you could subscribe to the Account's ExecutionUpdate event and then pair those executions together to create trades. You could then use the prices of the executions to determine whether or not the trade was profitable.

Account.ExecutionUpdate - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...tionupdate.htm

SystemPerformance - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...erformance.htm

TradeCollection - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...collection.htm

Trade Object - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...n-us/trade.htm

Please let us know if we may be of further assistance to you.

[fscabrera03]

I need the first one!.
But... TradeCollection last trade (last item in the array) is the las trade closed? Or if I have a running trade is the las t item of that array?

[NinjaTrader_Kate]

Hello fscabrera03,

Thank you for your reply.

The last trade in TradeCollection will be the last completed trade. An active position does not get added to TradeCollection until the position is exited. If you want to get the PnL for an active trade you'll want to use Position.GetUnrealizedProfitLoss():

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/position_getunrealizedprofitloss.htm

Please let us know if we may be of further assistance to you.