Access to manual trades from an indicator

[fpa75]

Hello,

I wonder if it is possible to access from an indicator to the trades made manually (not from a strategy,I am a discretionary trader).

The idea is to access all the informations of the "Account Performance" tab from an indicator. I have seen in the documentation the object Performance. Can this object be used to get information about manual trades ?

Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello fpa75,

Thank you for your post.

Unfortunately, there is no method for accessing the positions outside the strategy. However, there are unsupported and undocumented means to this. The following is an example of how to use unsupported methods to access account positions:

foreach (Account acct in Cbi.Globals.Accounts)
{
if (acct.Positions != null)
{
PositionCollection positions = acct.Positions;
foreach (Position pos in positions)
{
Print(pos.Account.Name + " " + pos.Instrument + " " + pos.MarketPosition + " " + pos.Quantity + " " + pos.AvgPrice);
}
}

[fpa75]

Ok, your answer means no (your code seems to give opened positions in real time, which is not my question). We cannot access to historical manual trades from an indicator. Big disappointment.

Another option would be to place manual trades from a strategy. Can this be easily done ? I mean, still using the UI to open trades, while they are recorded by a strategy ?

Regards.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello fpa75,

The following offers an example of using unsupported methods to create buttons for entry on a custom toolstrip, this should initialize the orders as submitted by the automated strategy. Unfortunately, there is no supported method to do this or pull the orders and positions from other Order Entry windows.

• http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...d=5&linkid=552

[fpa75]

Thank you for this code. I will have a look at it and see if I can use it.

Best regards.

PS: I hope NT 8 will allow direct access to the list of manual trades without the trick of using a strategy. After all, the Account Performance tab is able to list them, why can't we do the same from an indicator ?...