NT didn't read the OIF

[trader25]

I was long a position and a signal was sent over 3 minutes since the last trade signal. It was for a reverse but the trade wasn't made. It wasn't the first time a reverse trade was made for the day so the files were working properly.

The logs say this: AT 'reverse OIF' aborted: missing or bad parameter The process cannot access the file "C:\NinjaTrader 4\reverse.txt" because it is being used by another process.

The logs previous to that show I was long but when I look at the files in the AT folder it shows that I was flat at a price I entered the long at. Something went awry with NT reading and writing to the AT files.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

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The first step is that the reverse.txt had a bad parameter. Please use the OIF builder and verify that the string/format you are sending is correct as per the examples generated by the OIF builder.

[trader25]

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The OIF is correct andI said Ihad already made reverse trades with it. It has been working fine before that and it has worked since. I used the OIF builder to originally make the string in the first place. Something went awry with the way NT read the file as I explained.

[trader25]

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After looking at the logs, whenever there was a reverse, sometimesI get this:

"5/10/2005 12:58:00 PM AT 'reverse OIF' aborted: missing or bad parameter The process cannot access the file ""C:\Program Files\NinjaTrader 4\AT\reverse.txt"" because it is being used by another process."
"5/10/2005 12:58:00 PM AT Reverse OIF file deletion error: The process cannot access the file ""C:\Program Files\NinjaTrader 4\\AT\reverse.txt"" because it is being used by another process."

But the trades still take place after. Sometimes I don't get those messages and the trade takes place. Thetrade in which I am referring to previously, all I got was the first message. It's not being consistent.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

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This means that either NT has not closed the file from before or, the application that generates the OIF has not released the file. I have not had any reports of NT holding onto a file but I will check on my end and I ask you to do the same on your end.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

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This means that either NT has not closed the file from before or, the application that generates the OIF has not released the file. I have not had any reports of NT holding onto a file but I will check on my end and I ask you to do the same on your end.

[trader25]

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I made a change to my program to close the OIF file right after I write the trade to it, and that seems to have solved the problem.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

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Excellent.