Recording the difference in P&L of 2 positions

[jim380]

Is there a simple way to keep track of the net P&L of 2 or more open positions every minute?

I want to have the net P&L per min stored and recorded over the length of a trading week (5 days for the entire 24 hours each day).

It can be an actual number stored or simply an indicator on the chart.

Thanks

[koganam]

Is there a simple way to keep track of the net P&L of 2 or more open positions every minute?

I want to have the net P&L per min stored and recorded over the length of a trading week (5 days for the entire 24 hours each day).

It can be an actual number stored or simply an indicator on the chart.

Thanks

That depends on what you mean by the word "simple". The neatest way would be to use the Trade Collection class.

[jim380]

That depends on what you mean by the word "simple". The neatest way would be to use the Trade Collection class.

I did read about Trade Collection when I was searching on this. But I have no experience with NT programming, so I'm not quite sure how to use it at this point.

But isn't trade collection used only for closed position?

Are there ways to feed/write the information in the position tab into a text file or excel on a regular time period?

[NinjaTrader_JC]

Hello jim380,

That is correct, the TradeCollection is going to be trades that have been closed. If you use the Strategy Analyzer you will be able to view all of the Trades and Executions and Export them to an Excel file, but if you would like to write to the files manually inside of your Automated Strategy, you would have to add some additional code.

Here is a link to a thread that goes over how to use the System.IO that you may view to write text to a text file.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=3477

Otherwise, for Unrealized PnL you may use the GetProfitLoss() method.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?getprofitloss.htm