Please give us a sensible way for a strategy to publish information.

[NetTecture]

Right now the only thing is a Print statement.

THere is nothing against that, except it all goes mixed up into one output stream. THis makes it totally unusable outside debugging. Ever tried to follow like 5 strategies in 4 markets, all in the same output stream? The result is simply unusable.

Suggestion:
* Scrap the output window.
* Create one for every running strategy, that can be opened from the strategy grid.
* Make it catch information even when not open (so it can be opened after a trade).

This way one can have multiple streams for multiple strategies and they actually can be used to transmit sensible information outside debugging.

[NinjaTrader_Kyle]

Hello NetTecture,

Thank you for your post.

I will forward this request on to my development team for further consideration.

Please let me know if I may be of further assistance.

[NetTecture]

Well, if you ahve some ideas how i could handle textual output from strategies at the moment, as well as provide some real time input into them (mostly a "dont trade, get out" switch), i would be happy

I start running quite some strategies, and the internal status updates (Which I want to see) gets on my nerves in the output window.

Any way to write something on a chart from a strategy?

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

You could write on the chart with DrawText() or DrawTextFixed(). You could also output to a text file too if that is what you want to do. http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/...ead.php?t=3475

[NetTecture]

The textfile soleves nothing - the idea is to have immediate feedback, and opening a command line window with a TAIL command running is hardly something that makes me look tood at Ninja.

The idea with DrawText is a better one. No history, but at least I can put out the current information I will use that, thanks.

[Lost Trader]

If you want immediate feedback, your code can write Alerts - just have an Alert window open. You will get both sound & message. I do this from indicators when I want a real-time tracking record. You can also print to an (open) output file and see the messages in that window. only B&W in output window though.

cheers