Position.Quantity issue

[Mindset]

HI
I would like some guidance.
I have a strategy that places mouse click trades.
All works fine and it's unmanaged.
However I recently noticed that if i click say 1 lot and then change the value on the chart order itself to say 2 - 2 get filled but my strategy reports Position.Quantity as 1. And this causes havoc in my strategy with lots of obj instance errors, etc.
Can you tell me what I am missing and how to report this correctly to my strategy.
PS I would prefer not to use Managed as there are certain things managed does "wrong" for me.
thank you

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello Mindset,

Are the orders being submitted with strategy order methods (SubmitOrderUnmanaged())?

Or are the orders being submitted with Account.Submit() or AtmStrategyCreate()?

Are you testing the strategy using the Sim101 account?

Please print the order.ToString() in OnOrderUpdate() and print the position.ToString() in OnPositionUpdate(). If there are other prints already added to the script, please temporarily comment these out.

Re-run the script, save the output from the output window (right-click the output window > select Save as) and attach the .txt file to your next post.

[Mindset]

Apologies for the delay in response.
I established that Position.Quantity was only reporting the strategy position and not the account position - as per your help files.
So I gave myself a variable to report the actual account position size ( which on occassions can be different) in OnPositionUpdate and now reference that for my orders - I assume this is the right place to put it?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello Mindset,

That is correct the Position is the Strategy position. PositionAccount is the account position.

OnPositionUpdate() would be when the strategy position updates.

An event handler method added to the <Account>.PositionUpdate event would update when the account position updates.