Hotkey to enable and disable a strategy

[TraderJosh]

I want to be able to enable or disable a specified strategy with a hotkey e.g. 'ctrl + F1'. Is this possible? If so, would this need to be a custom script or can it be done through NT8's built-in features?

Thank you for your feedback!

[NinjaTrader_Gaby]

Hello TraderJosh,

Thank you for your post.

There is current not a built-in way to enable/disable a strategy with a hot key. However, I can submit this as a feature request on your behalf if you would like.

You can detect key presses through your code and use CloseStrategy() to close that specific strategy.

Please see this forum post which includes a sample script demonstrating detecting key presses in your code:

https://forum.ninjatrader.com/forum/ninjatrader-8/platform-technical-support-aa/1137469-hot-keys-for-order-entry?p=1137778#post1137778

CloseStrategy - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...sestrategy.htm

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

[halgo_boulder]

This is interesting... TraderJosh I bet you could do it by having a key press set a global variable to 0 or 1 (on or off) that enables or disables your strategy. This is also a great idea and something I will most likely incorporate.