You mean only buy if current market position = flat? Because if I said only buy if no positions = flat, nothing would happen.

Anyway, that's the first thing I tried. Nothing. the problem must be that as soon as the fast SMA goes below the long one, it exits the position, and then it's flat again for a moment and buys again.

I'm not going to make it calculate on bar close.. No, that would make whatever I'm trying to do way less accurate. The strategy I'm building is actually a lot larger and more complex than this, I just didn't feel like the rest was relevant, so I didn't post it.

So how do I add a flag? Is that something I can do on the strategy builder, or would I have to open the chart and put a flag at each problem area..?

A flag is a variable, that you give a certain value, to avoid multiple entries, or re-entry on the same bar.
I never work with strategy builder, but i guess, especially if you are building something more complex you
will have to change code manually. Even more complex things i make them completely outside of NT.

Good luck in your effort

Okay, but how do I make a flag? I kind of need to know this.

it could be various ways

1. boolean flag
when you put an order, you put the boolean to true
when the order is executed or cancelled you put it to false
this would solve multiple entries

2. last order bar
memorize the bar that triggered the last order, if the next
trigger is the same bar, simply void it and wait for at least
a different bar, this would solve repeat entries in the same
bar

thanks so much for your help. this is pretty alien to me still, but I should be able to figure it out from here! (:

Why you would spend your time helping me is beyond me, but I am very grateful that you did.

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Fuck, I knew that. Did I mention it's very, very late? Hold on.

@rleplae
@alecsaccount

Hello Gentlemen,
I was wondering if then you were able to end up with something useful regarding this issue of this interesting thread "BarsSinceEntryExecution isn't working".

I am very interested on this subject, because I tried to solve the very same issue. I also asked for NT support help and I exchanged several emails (sometime I could not really understand what they were saying) with them, but I could not end up with anything useful.

Then after a couple of weeks I noticed on this forum this great new thread of yours, but ... I do not see a conclusion. Did you perhaps end up with a practical solution to the issue of the subject.
If so please, kindly, could you let us all know?
Thank you very much for your precious time.
GT

cc. @ninja

Again, I'm not writing this with the ninjascript editor; I'm using the strategy builder because I have no experience coding whatsoever. So what you just wrote means very little to me.

I don't understand. I've only been running one time frame, one instrument, one data series, as far as I know.

Backtest type: Standard

Strategy: Long

Instrument: ES 12-16

Price based on: Last

Type: Minute

Value: 15

Start date: 01/01/2016

End date: 12/31/2016

Trading hours: <Use instrument settings>

Break at EOD: true

Include commission: false

Maximum bars lookback: Infinite

Bars required to trade: 20

Entries per direction: 1

Entry handling: All entries

Exit on session close: false

Set order quantity: Strategy

Time in force: GTC