How to generate an exit only strategy

[skooj]

If currently I have a long position in my account (for example buy market on chart trading), how do I create an exit only strategy?

"ExitLong()" won't work because I didn't enter a long position in this particular strategy, right?

"EnterShort()" will be ignored too.

The only way to exit is if I choose "sync account position" as "true" when I apply the strategy. But then the position is SellMarket without applying any of my exit strategy.

Thanks for your time.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello skooj,

Thank you for your post and welcome to the NinjaTrader Support Forum!

Automated NinjaScript Strategies are not designed to handle manually submitted orders.

With that said, you could use the Unmanaged Order Approach to SubmitOrder() that would close the position but would need unsupported methods to pull the account position. Keep in mind this path would mean the strategy reported position would be incorrect compared to the account position.

For information on the Unmanaged Order Approach please visit the following link: http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...d_approach.htm

[skooj]

Thank you Patrick! That's exactly what I need. So how can I pull the account position using unsupported methods? Can you share some codes or introduction?

Hello skooj,

Thank you for your post and welcome to the NinjaTrader Support Forum!

Automated NinjaScript Strategies are not designed to handle manually submitted orders.

With that said, you could use the Unmanaged Order Approach to SubmitOrder() that would close the position but would need unsupported methods to pull the account position. Keep in mind this path would mean the strategy reported position would be incorrect compared to the account position.

For information on the Unmanaged Order Approach please visit the following link: http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...d_approach.htm

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello skooj,

Thank you for your response.

You can use the following to pull from the accounts and get the positions, keep in mind this is unsupported code:

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);
}
}