Adding a manual profit target in addition to strategy

[Ousher]

I have a strategy that has conditions to take profit but i want to add a manual profit target on the chart where i can move it around. How would i go about this?

[NinjaTrader_Emily]

Hello Ousher,

Thank you for your post.

One way to be able to move around a strategy-generated order is to add buttons to your chart trader that would have the action of moving the price of the Profit Target order up or down. The button would use TriggerCustomEvent and then in your event handler you could add logic that modifies the price of the Profit Target. In order to use ChangeOrder(), your order must be either submitted via the Managed Approach with IsLiveUntilCancelled set to true or submitted via the Unmanaged Approach:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/managed_changeorder.htm

My colleague has posted an example that uses chart order buttons with a few different use cases as an example here:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/forum/ninjatrader-8/indicator-development/1126570-changing-variables-within-an-indicator-from-another-indicator-with-buttons?p=1126818#post1126818

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