Close trade outside of strategy

[Downhillryder]

Hi

When running a strategy it is possible to open a SuperDom on the same underlying and watch the bid/ask/profit and stoploss/takeprofit points. This is great.

However if I override the strategy by (say) closing the trade using the close button on the SuperDom the strategy is stopped and has to be restarted.

Is it possible to override this behaviour so the strategy does not get stopped ?

thanks for any help

Dave

[NinjaTrader_JC]

Hello Downhillryder,

You can middle mouse click the Close button in the SuperDOM to close any open or pending positions without disabling the strategy.

Let us know if we can be of further assistance.

[Downhillryder]

Hi

Thanks for the fast reply.

When I middle click the close button I get a message asking me to select a strategy to close. What do I select ?

To be clear, my original question pertained to a Strategy (NOT an ATM strategy) running with an open position that I want to close from the SuperDom. I want to close the position not the strategy, without closing the strategy, which is what happens when I left click the close button.

Hope I am not being stupid here !!!

regards

[NinjaTrader_JC]

Hello Downhillryder,

Thanks for clarifying that.

You can manually place an opposing order to close the position. For example if you are short 1, you could place a buy market to become flat, although the strategy will still be running it is going to be unaware of this activity on the account so it will still think it is 1 short.

By left clicking Close button it will close the current position, cancel any working orders, and disable any strategies applied to that instrument. If your strategy uses ATM Strategies then it would be possible to use the middle mouse button on the Close button to keep it enabled.

Let us know if we can be of further assistance.

[edward_bell]

Hello Downhillryder,

You can middle mouse click the Close button in the SuperDOM to close any open or pending positions without disabling the strategy.

Let us know if we can be of further assistance.

Is there a way to programatically do this in indicator? I am really having trouble closing a position taken by ninjascript strategy by using the close button of the chart trader.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Which issues are you seeing exactly Edward? Triggering the Close algorithm (with left mouse button) would disable running strategies on that instrument / account and attempt to cancel orders and close open positions.

[edward_bell]

Which issues are you seeing exactly Edward? Triggering the Close algorithm (with left mouse button) would disable running strategies on that instrument / account and attempt to cancel orders and close open positions.

I really want to know the code for triggering the close algorithm(with middle mouse button) so that it will close the running strategies. I know that the using left mouse button will be this code

Button mybutton = new Button();
mybutton = (Button) ChartControl.Controls["pnlChartTrader"].Controls["ctrChartTraderControl"].Controls["btnClose"];
SendMessage(mybutton.Handle, WM_LBUTTONDOWN,(IntPtr)0,(IntPtr)0);
SendMessage(mybutton.Handle, WM_LBUTTONUP,(IntPtr)0,(IntPtr)0);

now what I want to know is the middle mouse button.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Edward, I could unfortunately not point to a supported / documented method call for that, however for the one you posted, there's a WM_MBUTTONDOWN / UP as well for the MS Winproc function.