strategy combining quantity of existing chart trader execution

[SteveReiza]

i'm chart trading and i also have some automated strategies. when the automated strategy occurs it combines the amount, adds the stop correctly, but erases the gains made by the chart trader transaction somehow. how can i make it so the automated strategy doesn't combine orders?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello SteveReiza,

All of the orders, manual and automated, submitted to the same account will affect the account position.

If you want to see the positions separate, place the orders to different accounts.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/forum/ninjatrader-7/strategy-development-aa/99748-two-independent-strategies-on-the-same-futures-contract?p=792660#post792660

[SteveReiza]

thanks for the reply. okay gotcha. can you explain the quirky math though? i was up 17 points. then the strategy executed. then it showed i was up 3.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello SteveReiza,

Not enough information is provided.

But as an example, if you were to have multiple contracts and scale out, the position average price would change to the remaining orders and would change the amount of unrealized pnl.

[SteveReiza]

thanks for the reply. it happened to me twice. it added the contracts to the chart trader line with the contracts active. but it subtracted out all the profits. its like the points in profit disappeared. it started reading the new positions PnL in ticks and erased what was existing.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello SteveReiza,

You will need to look at all of the orders and the sequence they were filled.

Each order is going to change the position average price.

If the order was an exit order, this would likely be what 'subtracted out all the profits'.

[SteveReiza]

thanks for the reply. i figured out what happened. a short trade got put in on a long trade - and canceled one another out. then the stop loss got hit.