Why does System Trade Count go both up-and-down?

[timmbbo]

I do not understand why SystemPerformance.RealTimeTrades.LosingTrades.Coun t (and WinningTrades) can go both up and down?

I'm running a strategy, real-time, against the live market. The script starts trading when the market opens, at 6 AM PST. I have a Print system, to print out:


SystemPerformance.RealTimeTrades.LosingTrades.Coun t
SystemPerformance.RealTimeTrades.WinningTrades.Cou nt


Attached is a screen shot of that output. You can see at one point, Winning Traders = 4, and Losing Trades = 2. Then, Winning Trades = 1 and Losing Trades = 1. Of course, I'd expect these values to be the current count of winning and losing trades, which doesn't appear to be the case.

I need to implement a circuit breaker where if I have three bad trades in a trading day, then I need to quit. But if LosingTrades.Count isn't accurate, then of course, my logic can fail.

What's up? Thanks,

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi timmbbo, thanks for posting. Are you running the script anywhere else on another instrument? Check for any other instances of your script running. Also, add the name of the strategy to the print to make sure it's coming from that strategy. I attached my test script that works fine when using SystemPerformance if you would like to test it out.

Kind regards,
-ChrisL