Current Balance of account during backtest

[rht5692]

Hi, i am using the account balance in a strategy. Every thing is fine on real time but for the backtest period, it seems that the account balance is "reset" on starting of each day. Is this true ? if yes, how can i retrieve the value of the account balance ? thank you for your help

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello rht5692,

Thanks for your post.

There is no account used when backtesting a strategy in the Strategy Analyzer so you will see a value of zero print out when calling Print(Account.Get(AccountItem.TotalCashBalance, Currency.UsDollar));.

This is because there is no backtest account in the Strategy Analyzer to get this information from. The Strategy Analyzer simply runs the strategy on historical data to see how that strategy might have worked on that past data.

You could consider using the Playback connection which does use an account (Playback101) when testing NinjaScript strategies.

See the help guide pages linked below for more information.

Playback: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...8/playback.htm
Account: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ount_class.htm
Account.Get(): https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/get.htm
AccountItem: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ccountitem.htm