plot execution markers disappear when running custom strategy.

[jorel]

I am using a simple strategy that draws a 200 period SMA on my 50 tick chart. It works, but when I use it, the trade execution markers no longer appear. Any idea why this might be happening?

here's the code:

#region Using declarations
using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Drawing2D;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using NinjaTrader.Cbi;
using NinjaTrader.Data;
using NinjaTrader.Indicator;
using NinjaTrader.Strategy;
#endregion

// This namespace holds all strategies and is required. Do not change it.
namespace NinjaTrader.Strategy
{
/// <summary>
/// Enter the description of your strategy here
/// </summary>
[Description("Display the SMA200 from the 1 min chart on the 50 tick chart (or another time period)")]
[Gui.Design.DisplayName("DrawSMA200")]
public class DrawSMA200 : Strategy
{
#region Variables
// Wizard generated variables
// User defined variables (add any user defined variables below)
private int tagNumber = 0;
private string tagName;
private double sma200Value_0;
private double sma200Value_1;
#endregion

/// <summary>
/// This method is used to configure the strategy and is called once before any strategy method is called.
/// </summary>
protected override void Initialize()
{
// Add the 1 minute chart
Add(Instrument.FullName, PeriodType.Minute, 1);
CalculateOnBarClose = true;
}

/// <summary>
/// Called on each bar update event (incoming tick)
/// </summary>
protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
if (BarsInProgress == 1) // 1 min
{
sma200Value_0 = SMA(200)[0];
sma200Value_1 = SMA(200)[1];
return;
}

if (BarsInProgress == 0) // 50 tick chart
{
tagNumber = tagNumber + 1;
tagName = "tag" + tagNumber.ToString();
// Draw the SMA 200 from the 1 minute chart on the 50 tick chart using draw tools
DrawLine(tagName, 1, sma200Value_1, 0, sma200Value_0, Color.DarkOrchid, DashStyle.Solid, 4);
return;
}
}

#region Properties
#endregion
}
}

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

This is correct behaviour. When you run a strategy, only executions resulting from the running strategy will be displayed.

Since your strategy code does not place orders, there will be no executions displayed.

On another note, you can remove your code for processing the minute data and simply do something like:

DrawLine(tagName, 1, SMA(BarsArray[1], 200)[0], 0, SMA(BarsArray[1], 200)[1], Color.DarkOrchid, DashStyle.Solid, 4);

[jorel]

ok, so maybe I should have rephrased my question.

Is there a way to allow the trade markers to show along with the 200 SMA line?

seems like that would be a very important capability.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

If your strategy is *not* going to submit orders, then implement your visuals using an indicator instead of a strategy. Then you can have your account based executions plotted alongside your indicator.

When a strategy is running, it will only show trades generated by that strategy. This is by design since trader will not want to pollute their chart with trades/executions that are not related to a running strategy.