Strategy for Trading with user controlled Button override.

[JimB17]

Have developed a Strategy with setup, trigger and ATM order entry. This works fine.

However I do not always want the order entry to be automatic. For this purpose I have created an Indicator which puts Enable/Disable Long/Short on the ChartTrader window as four buttons. These provide ability to user select if I want Long and/or Short trades to fire automatically when the Strategy is running.

My issue is how do I access this button interface indicator from within the Strategy? If I instantiate the Button Indicator from the Strategy it is "programmatic" and it does not show up on the screen at all. If I manually add the Indicator to the chart window where run the Strategy don't know how to connect to its data/behavior in the running Strategy.

Is there some way for the initiation of the Strategy to connect to existing Button Indicator?

I'm new to the NT environment as well as C# and .Net although lifelong programmer. Thx!

-Jim

[JimB17]

As a further update I have tried to use a "static" set of Boolean values to share my button state between the visible Indicator and the Strategy bound indicator and it did not work.

I did have the static work in one thread but it appears the Strategy runs in a different address space so it does not see changes made in the visible GUI.

Would rather not have to deposit state in a file or otherwise.... any hints??? Thx. -Jim

[JimB17]

Never mind.... did the work to put the button state into a file content string which the visible indicator writes and the embedded indicator in the Strategy reads. Now even the Trade buttons can live on a different chart from the Strategy it all works.