Strategy not working

[Austiner87]

Hello NT8,

I have been trying to get this strategy to work, it seems like everything should be fine/working, but it is not. can you please help, it is attached.

I use a private bool for my entries, but even when I replace the criteria into the entries, it still doesn't work.

I have checked and rechecked the indicators and when they show on the chart, they show when I should be entering, but I dont enter.

Thank you!

[NinjaTrader_Kate]

Hello Austiner87,

Thank you for your post.

The first thing I would recommend when you're not seeing entries as you expect would be to turn on the Order Trace function:

Strategy Builder > Default Properties > More Properties > Trace Orders, or:

if (State == State.SetDefaults)
{
TraceOrders = true;
}

Once you then recompile the strategy, you can open a new NinjaScript Output window under New > NinjaScript Output. This will print a log of any orders submitted by the strategy during while it's running, along with any ignored orders. You can then look through and see what may be occurring.

Here is a link to our help guide that goes into more detail on tracing orders:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...aceorders2.htm

Trace orders alone may not give you the full picture of whether or not a trade should have been entered on a given bar, so adding prints to your strategy that will show in the NinjaScript Output window, with information on what the variables you're using for your conditions are on a particular bar, can be helpful. I would in particular print the values that you're referencing in your bool variable - are you getting values there as you'd expect?

This forum post goes into great detail on how to use prints to help figure out where issues may stem from — this should get you going in the correct direction. You can even add these using the Strategy Builder.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/foru...ns-not-working

If you run into issues like we saw here, the above information will allow you to print out all values used in the condition in question that may be evaluating differently. With the printout information you can assess what is different between the two.

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