How to handle trades individually?

[Waxavi]

Hello,

I'm having trouble with the following, I have two signal providers to enter some long/short market orders.
I have a couple of questions

1 - For further development, I need to know if there's currently a position open due to SMA, Stoch, or both. It seems there's no way to find this, it doesn't help much-giving tags to these trades if I cannot track them, what options do I have?

2 - A sample screenshot is given, when there are 2 long trades going (quantity = 2), and I place an "EnterShort" (quantity = 1) these 2 trades are closed, and the short is entered. Is there a way to close just "quantity = 1"? and if I close "Stoch", "SMA" remains open, tracked, and visible on the chart? (vice versa if I close "SMA")

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
  if (CurrentBar < BarsRequiredToTrade)
    return;

  if (CrossAbove(smaFast, smaSlow, 1))
    EnterLong("SMA");
  else if (CrossBelow(smaFast, smaSlow, 1))
    EnterShort("SMA");

  if (CrossAbove(stochastics.K, 20, 1))
    EnterLong("Stoch");
  else if (CrossBelow(stochastics.K, 80, 1))
    EnterShort("Stoch");
}

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello Waxavi,

1 - For further development, I need to know if there's currently a position open due to SMA, Stoch, or both. It seems there's no way to find this, it doesn't help much-giving tags to these trades if I cannot track them, what options do I have?

The easiest way would be to use your own variable, the only information you can pass to an order would be the signal name so that would be the alternative.

2 - A sample screenshot is given, when there are 2 long trades going (quantity = 2), and I place an "EnterShort" (quantity = 1) these 2 trades are closed, and the short is entered. Is there a way to close just "quantity = 1"? and if I close "Stoch", "SMA" remains open, tracked, and visible on the chart? (vice versa if I close "SMA")

If you are trying to scale out of a position you would need to submit two separate entries that have unique signal names and then use Exit orders to close those out. If you intended to reverse 1 of the position then the second contract you can call EnterShort and that will reverse the position. The Exit orders have a parameter called FromEntrySignal which is the entry signal name to close.

[Waxavi]

If I type repeatedly for example

ExitLong("SMA");
ExitLong("SMA");
ExitLong("SMA");

I don't get any error or notification, it's just mute.
Is there a way to check if there's a signal "SMA" to exit from, beforehand?

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello Waxavi,

ExitLong("SMA"); would be trying to close an entry that was named SMA.

To check if you are in a position you can use the MarketPosition: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...MarketPosition

Exit orders will be ignored if you have targets working.

[Waxavi]

I'd like this to be a feature if possible in the future, that at any point in time I can know how many "Entry Signals" are active and can be closed, without the use of flags.
Thanks for your support