Check whether ATM Strategy exists?

[gbourque]

Is there a way to check whether an ATM strategy exists before actually trying to use it in a strategy trade? Thanks!

[NinjaTrader_Emily]

Hello gbourque,

Thank you for post.

There is a way you could make a list of ATM strategies based on the template names in the NinjaTrader 8\templates\AtmStrategy directory. Here is a snippet of what that would look like:

        List<string> values = new List<string>();
        string[] files = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(System.IO.Path.Combine(NinjaTrader.Core.Globals.UserDataDir, "templates", "AtmStrategy"), "*.xml");  

        foreach(string atm in files)
        {
            values.Add(System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(atm));
            NinjaTrader.Code.Output.Process(System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(atm), PrintTo.OutputTab1);
        }​

You could then check the list to see if it contains the desired string for the ATM strategy template name using the List<T>.Contains(T) method. This is a general C# concept described at the following publicly available link:

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/do...tframework-4.8

After performing a check to see if that string exists in the list of template names, then you could use that string as the strategyTemplateName in AtmStrategyCreate() knowing that template does exist:

• https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...tegycreate.htm

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

[gbourque]

Worked great. Thanks!