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March 13th, 2012, 12:40 PM

'I will give you a Hmaburger for it TMFT and pay you next Tuesday for it'....Wimpy

March 13th, 2012, 01:13 PM

sunil patel

'I will give you a Hmaburger for it TMFT and pay you next Tuesday for it'....Wimpy

... you know the Cardiologist won't let me have a hamburger....

March 14th, 2012, 09:10 AM

OK, I'll scratch that idea.

What concerned me most about the other methods is that they all involve unsupported features, which NT could eliminate at any time...not that I don't use lots of other unsupported features.

March 14th, 2012, 09:56 AM

futuretrader

OK, I'll scratch that idea.

What concerned me most about the other methods is that they all involve unsupported features, which NT could eliminate at any time...not that I don't use lots of other unsupported features.

I feel the same way you do. Although I think this approach is pretty cool technically, its un-supportability is the reason I chose not to go that route. If you want a more supportable approach, what I do is start a strategy normally in the command center, and load a normal indicator on my chart as usual, and have the indicator and strategy communicate with each other with a global variable as described in post #31.

That approach has several advantages. First it is fully supported, second, it is simple and straight forward, third, because the indicator is fully de-coupled from the strategy, you have much more flexibility. For instance, you can alter the management of a trade in-flight by sending new commands to the strategy while it is in the middle of a trade, or pause the strategy, etc. Commands to the strategy can come from anywhere at anytime, from the same indicator that started a trade, or any other indicator even from a different chart, or any other strategy. When the trade is over, the strategy is still running, so you have access to strategy aggregated data, that can be used for future trade decisions, etc., etc. I've been using this approach ever since NT6.5.

March 14th, 2012, 01:04 PM

Thanks, monpere, I decided to pursue your method using the global variable.

How do you monitor the 'command' variable in your strategy, via a timer or just checking within one of the update methods?

March 14th, 2012, 01:47 PM

futuretrader

Thanks, monpere, I decided to pursue your method using the global variable.

How do you monitor the 'command' variable in your strategy, via a timer or just checking within one of the update methods?

I check in OnMarketData(), and I have a 1 second timer check.

March 14th, 2012, 02:33 PM

monpere

I feel the same way you do. Although I think this approach is pretty cool technically, its un-supportability is the reason I chose not to go that route. If you want a more supportable approach, what I do is start a strategy normally in the command center, and load a normal indicator on my chart as usual, and have the indicator and strategy communicate with each other with a global variable as described in post #31.

That approach has several advantages. First it is fully supported, second, it is simple and straight forward, third, because the indicator is fully de-coupled from the strategy, you have much more flexibility. For instance, you can alter the management of a trade in-flight by sending new commands to the strategy while it is in the middle of a trade, or pause the strategy, etc. Commands to the strategy can come from anywhere at anytime, from the same indicator that started a trade, or any other indicator even from a different chart, or any other strategy. When the trade is over, the strategy is still running, so you have access to strategy aggregated data, that can be used for future trade decisions, etc., etc. I've been using this approach ever since NT6.5.

Mon,

I need to see typical setup codes for the Strategy that is triggered by an indicator ... there is none posted on futures.io (formerly BMT) (Or is there any ?) ... we already have a typical indicator posted in this regard, but the indicator does not contain codes that call a Strategy. Could we have a typical indicator/Strategy setup/codes scenario that we can build on ?

Lolu

March 14th, 2012, 03:10 PM

lolu

Mon,

I need to see typical setup codes for the Strategy that is triggered by an indicator ... there is none posted on futures.io (formerly BMT) (Or is there any ?) ... we already have a typical indicator posted in this regard, but the indicator does not contain codes that call a Strategy. Could we have a typical indicator/Strategy setup/codes scenario that we can build on ?

Lolu

My indicator and strategy have a lot of customized code for my particular style of trading, but a simple case would look like this:

Code

//###
//### Strategy
//###
public class TradeManager_Global {
    public static string command = "";
}

namespace NinjaTrader.Strategy
{
...
    protected override void OnBarUpdate() {
        if ( TradeManager_Global.command.Contains("Buy") ) {
            EnterLong();
            TradeManager_Global.command = "";
        }
...
    }
}

Code

//###
//### Indicator
//###
protected override void OnBarUpdate() {
   ...
   if ( buyButtonPressed ) TradeManager_Global.command = "Buy";
   ...
}

Some of my commands may look like the following depending on what buttons I press etc.:

<ATMmgrCmd>CL 04-12, BuyNextBarRange 1 ATM_'FUT 5R_LOCAL'</ATMmgr>"

which says buy 1 CL contact at the close of the next range bar using the "FUT 5R_LOCAL" NT ATM Strategy.

<ATMmgrCmd>CL 04-12, BuyMarket 1 +10-5 @5:-3 @7:-2 @8:+1 @9:+5>

which means: Buy 1 CL contract at Market, Target 10 ticks (+10), Stop 5 Ticks (-5), At 5 Ticks in the profit move stop to 3 ticks behind my entry (@5:-3), at 7 ticks in profit move stop to 2 ticks behind the entry (@7:-2), at 8 Ticks in profit move stop to break even +1 (@8:+1), at 9 ticks in profit move stop to entry +5 ticks (@9:+5), etc. With this format, the strategy can duplicate the NT ATM's, but have unlimited number of steps, and unlimited flexibility. I put the string "+10-5=8 @5:-3 @7:-2 @8:+1 @9:+5" in an indicator parameter, and pass it along with the command when I need a flexible ATM. You can customize everything else as you wish, of course you have to write the code to parse and execute the commands.

March 14th, 2012, 03:34 PM

monpere

My indicator and strategy have a lot of customized code for my particular style of trading, but a simple case would look like this:

Code

//###
//### Strategy
//###
public class TradeManager_Global {
    public static string command = "";
}

namespace NinjaTrader.Strategy
{
...
    protected override void OnBarUpdate() {
        if ( TradeManager_Global.command.Contains("Buy") ) {
            EnterLong();
            TradeManager_Global.command = "";
        }
...
    }
}

Code

//###
//### Indicator
//###
protected override void OnBarUpdate() {
   ...
   if ( buyButtonPressed ) TradeManager_Global.command = "Buy";
   ...
}

Some of my commands may look like the following depending on what buttons I press etc.:

<ATMmgrCmd>CL 04-12, BuyNextBarRange 1 ATM_'FUT 5R_LOCAL'</ATMmgr>"

which says buy 1 CL contact at the close of the next range bar using the "FUT 5R_LOCAL" NT ATM Strategy.

<ATMmgrCmd>CL 04-12, BuyMarket 1 +10-5 @5:-3 @7:-2 @8:+1 @9:+5>

which means: Buy 1 CL contract at Market, Target 10 ticks (+10), Stop 5 Ticks (-5), At 5 Ticks in the profit move stop to 3 ticks behind my entry (@5:-3), at 7 ticks in profit move stop to 2 ticks behind the entry (@7:-2), at 8 Ticks in profit move stop to break even +1 (@8:+1), at 9 ticks in profit move stop to entry +5 ticks (@9:+5), etc. With this format, the strategy can duplicate the NT ATM's, but have unlimited number of steps, and unlimited flexibility. I put the string "+10-5=8 @5:-3 @7:-2 @8:+1 @9:+5" in an indicator parameter, and pass it along with the command when I need a flexible ATM. You can customize everything else as you wish, of course you have to write the code to parse and execute the commands.

Mon,

See my question in the attached screenshot (just getting to understand your concepts ... I want to immediately start to create a setup).

Lolu

March 14th, 2012, 03:41 PM

lolu

Mon,

See my question in the attached screenshot (just getting to understand your concepts ... I want to immediately start to create a setup).

Lolu

The specialized command goes in the indicator OnBarUpdate() code. The strategy is only reading that command, and resetting it after it has read and processed it.

Code

//###
//### Indicator
//###
protected override void OnBarUpdate() {
   ...
   if ( buyButtonPressed ) TradeManager_Global.command = "BuyNextBarRange 1 ATM_'FUT 5R_LOCAL'";
   ...
}

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