About MarketPosition in the Strategy at start

[vitaly_p]

Hello

I have a question about MarketPosition in the Strategy at start:
The position will read either Long or Short before anything has even happened. As the strategy is start - it look at the bars that are loading in as everything is setting up and it "counting and trading on History" a few seconds of loading time.

So even though I do NOT have an open position - Position.MarketPosition will insist I am either Long or Short and I see that Strategy have a some open position but in really Not have open positions. I understand that I can put condition for Ignore "State.Historical" BUT I would like to MOVE virtual Strategy positions in real opening position on the start of the Strategy.
For example: If at start my Strategy show that in current time it have 3 Long positions - I would like to have Long position for 3 contracts (open positions by Market at the moment), not wait for next conditions for enter.

[QuantKey_Bruce]

Read up on the two links here https://ninjatrader.com//support/hel...h_accounts.htm which address the difference between an historical backtesting position and your live account position, and how to synchronize between the two (or not) at the end of the historical period.

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello vitaly_p,

When you apply a strategy it will process all the historical bars first. During that time the strategy is doing a historical backtest so it can place virtual trades. If you don't want it to trade historically you would have to add as part of the conditions to enter a check for State.Realtime so it does not place historical trades.

The position is a result of the strategies trading in both historical and realtime. If the strategy enters historical trades but does not exit them historically the default start behavior is to wait until the strategy exits those virtual trades and becomes flat. Once that happens it will begin working in realtime.

You can review the start behaviors that are available in the following link to see which matches your trading style, the behavior Immediately submit, synchronize account would do what you are asking.

•If the Account Position matches your Strategy Position, no reconciliatory order will be submitted. The strategy will then begin managing your Strategy Position immediately.

•If the Account Position does not match your Strategy Position, NinjaTrader will submit a market order(s) to reconcile the Account Position to match your Strategy Position. The strategy will then begin managing your Strategy Position immediately.

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

[vitaly_p]

Thank you Bruce and Thank you Jesse!