Capture when orders are inserted MANUALLY with ChartTrader

[VFI26]

Hi

I have a simple question. I have my chart open (say NQ 5minutes) and with the Chart Trader or via context menu (available at the right click of the mouse on the chart) I MANUALLY enter market or I create a limit order. Is there a way to capture such events from within a strategy or an indicator (so within the source code) which is running on the same chart?

I have tried to run in debug mode a very simple strategy where the following methods OnExecutionUpdate, OnOrderUpdate and OnPositionUpdate are there just to see if in case a market order is entered via Chart Trader or via limit order through context menu they got triggered. As I result I see that they are not triggered (I guess because it's not the strategy itself that has placed such orders but they were placed manually). Is there any possible solution to my question?

Thank you so much in advance
Best regards

[NinjaTrader_Gaby]

Hello VFI26,

Thank you for your post.

Strategies cannot track manually submitted orders. To track manual orders you can use the AddOn approach to track orders submitted to the account directly.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpguides/nt8/account_class.htm

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpguides/nt8/orders_account.htm

However please note that there is no way to differentiate manually submitted orders from the Chart Trader vs other order entry windows like SuperDOM or Basic Entry.