how to stop stop resetting a variable

[Don22Trader1]

Hello, I'm currently using this custom calculation to simulate the current gross realized for a back-test since the strategy analyzer cannot take "Account.Get(AccountItem.GrossRealizedProfitLo ss, Currency.UsDollar)".

The variable "CurrentGrossRealizedPnL" should only be 0 at the beginning of the strategy then keep updating to a new value after every trade, but since I have it set to CalculateOnPriceChange it resets to 0 each time the method is called.

How can I avoid resetting the variable each time the method is called?

[RT001]

Hi Don22Trader1, I don't think this will answer your question, but in my strategies, setting some values at the start of the strategy (and only once) is something I do a lot, maybe it can help you with this and in these situations in general.


So what I do is to create a variable ("StrategyFirstLoop") that indicates that the strategy is starting and assign it a value:

//This namespace holds Strategies in this folder and is required. Do not change it.
namespace NinjaTrader.NinjaScript.Strategies
{
public class MyStrategy: Strategy
{
private int StrategyFirstLoop = 1;

And then, in the section of OnBarUpdate(), I dedicate a section to anything I want to do only once, and finish that section by assigning a new value to "StrategyFirstLoop", so that this section is not read anymore after:

// First Loop, when OnBarUpdate() is running
if (StrategyFirstLoop== 1)
{
// do everything I want to do at the beginning of the strategy

StrategyFirstLoop = 0;  // this section will not run again
}

I hope it's not too much off-topic from your question and that it's helping a bit.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello Don22Trader1,

Set CurrentGrossRealizedPnL to 0 in State.DataLoaded or State.Historical if you only want this set once.