Hi,
I've carefully read the "Set" money management functions' help pages. All four of these help pages have the following sentence at the end of the description for the "fromEntrySignal" input parameter:
"Using an empty string will attach the exit order to all entries."
I would like to standardize my code to always use the method overloads with the most parameters because they offer more advanced options. I would like to use these "maximum number of parameters" method overloads even when I want to use SetStopLoss(), SetTrailStop(), SetProfitTarget(), or SetParabolicStop() to manage the "Total Position" as it is referred to in the NinjaTrader Strategy Builder's user interface, not just manage a position that has a specific "fromEntrySignal" value.
I noticed that in the NinjaTrader Strategy Builder's "Stops and Targets" tab, if the user selects "Parabolic stop total position", "Profit target total position", or "Stop loss total position", the NinjaScript output uses the method overloads with the smallest number of parameters that doesn't accept an "fromEntrySignal" instead of those with the largest number of parameters and then using the empty string for the value passed to the "fromEntrySignal" parameter as I would like to do in my code.
Since the NinjaTrader Strategy Builder's "Stops and Targets" tab does it this way (i.e. it uses the method overloads with less parameters and doesn't pass "" for the "fromEntrySignal" parameter) for the 3 "total position" options I figure there might be a problem with doing it the way that I would like to do it to manage the "Total Position", namely by using "" for the "fromEntrySignal" parameter of the method overloads with the larger number of parameters.
To use "SetStopLoss()" as an example, is there any possible difference whatsoever in for instance 1) calling SetStopLoss using the method overload with the least number of parameters (2 parameters) or 2) calling the SetStopLoss method overload with the most number of parameters (4 parameters) but passing the empty string, i.e. "", as the fromEntrySignal parameter and passing "false" as the "isSimulatedStop" parameter?
When the help guide says in reference to the "fromEntrySignal" parameter of the method overloads that "Using an empty string will attach the exit order to all entries" is this 100% equivalent to saying that using an empty string will manage the "Total Position" as is done by the method overloads that take less parameters and do not have an "fromEntrySignal" parameter?
Thank you in advance!
EquityTrader
I've carefully read the "Set" money management functions' help pages. All four of these help pages have the following sentence at the end of the description for the "fromEntrySignal" input parameter:
"Using an empty string will attach the exit order to all entries."
I would like to standardize my code to always use the method overloads with the most parameters because they offer more advanced options. I would like to use these "maximum number of parameters" method overloads even when I want to use SetStopLoss(), SetTrailStop(), SetProfitTarget(), or SetParabolicStop() to manage the "Total Position" as it is referred to in the NinjaTrader Strategy Builder's user interface, not just manage a position that has a specific "fromEntrySignal" value.
I noticed that in the NinjaTrader Strategy Builder's "Stops and Targets" tab, if the user selects "Parabolic stop total position", "Profit target total position", or "Stop loss total position", the NinjaScript output uses the method overloads with the smallest number of parameters that doesn't accept an "fromEntrySignal" instead of those with the largest number of parameters and then using the empty string for the value passed to the "fromEntrySignal" parameter as I would like to do in my code.
Since the NinjaTrader Strategy Builder's "Stops and Targets" tab does it this way (i.e. it uses the method overloads with less parameters and doesn't pass "" for the "fromEntrySignal" parameter) for the 3 "total position" options I figure there might be a problem with doing it the way that I would like to do it to manage the "Total Position", namely by using "" for the "fromEntrySignal" parameter of the method overloads with the larger number of parameters.
To use "SetStopLoss()" as an example, is there any possible difference whatsoever in for instance 1) calling SetStopLoss using the method overload with the least number of parameters (2 parameters) or 2) calling the SetStopLoss method overload with the most number of parameters (4 parameters) but passing the empty string, i.e. "", as the fromEntrySignal parameter and passing "false" as the "isSimulatedStop" parameter?
When the help guide says in reference to the "fromEntrySignal" parameter of the method overloads that "Using an empty string will attach the exit order to all entries" is this 100% equivalent to saying that using an empty string will manage the "Total Position" as is done by the method overloads that take less parameters and do not have an "fromEntrySignal" parameter?
Thank you in advance!
EquityTrader
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