Way to delay entry?

[Brandon9821]

Hello, maybe this is simple and I’m overthinking it but is there a way to delay the entry of a position when I hit buy or sell? For example- on a 10 minute bar, the bar has 4 minutes left until the bar closes and the new one opens. I decide to go long 4 minutes before the bar closes but do not want to enter the trade until the instant of the next bar open price, not at the current price. Thank you

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi Brandon, thanks for posting.

Your strategy will need to use boolean flags to mark an entry variable, then if that variable is true on the first tick of the next bar, call the entry method. You can check if the tick is the first tick of the bar with IsFirstTickOfBar, and I have also linked a publicly available page on C# booleans:

https://www.w3schools.com/cs/cs_booleans.php

The idea is to detect your entry condition, set the boolean to true, and if the boolean is true on the next bar, enter the trade at that time.

Best regards,
-ChrisL