Collection of nuances & issues for developing trading strategies

July 16th, 2009, 06:38 PM

This will be a collection of nuances and "sticky wickets" to be aware of when developing a trading strategy in Ninja Trader. Please feel free to contribute anything you come across personally or in the NT and BigMike forums or anywhere else. Please attach images that demonstrate the issue whenever possible.

I'll make it a sticky so it doesn't get "lost" down the chat pages.

July 16th, 2009, 06:54 PM

Check out responses to "Same Strategy, Same Market, Same Time = Different trades! [MXASJ]"

Fibonacci Retracements

Hey guys,

I have this highly annoying problem with the plotting of the Fibonacci retracements. I'm using this indicator created by Cory (it's simply awesome).
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The problem is that it's not plotting the defaults I'm choosing in the …

July 20th, 2009, 09:40 PM

Realtime trades are paired in the sequence of their timestamps and not by entry/exit names

July 21st, 2009, 11:03 AM

If you are managing your trade on a smaller time frame you can do a few things:

EnterLong(1, DefaultQuantity, "myLong")

Where the 1 will force it into BarsArray[1].

In the Initialize section add the line

Add(PeriodType.Range, 1)

Using range 1 instead of tick 1 is much more efficient and will still manage the trade every 1 tick of price movement. Helpful for trailing stops or etc.

Collection of nuances & issues for developing trading strategies

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Collection of nuances & issues for developing trading strategies