Flatten on close and Strategies

[richbois]

Hi

I have many strategies running and i have NT7 set to flatten everything at 4PM EST

However I have 1 Strategy that is marked not to Exit on Close

However it gets closed at 4PM with the others however i need to have it ready for 430PM

What am i doing wrong???

Thank you in advance

Richard

[NinjaTrader_RyanM]

Hello richbois,
Flatten everything will cancel all open orders across all instruments and strategies.You will need to configure the scripts to close orders at 4:00 PM EST and not flatten everything.

[richbois]

Hello richbois,
Flatten everything will cancel all open orders across all instruments and strategies.You will need to configure the scripts to close orders at 4:00 PM EST and not flatten everything.

Thanks Ryan so that means cancelling the flatten everything under the control panel option tab and do it only in the strategies

correct??


PS question is the close based on my session template for the instrument or something else??

[NinjaTrader_RyanM]

Hello,
Thank you for your response. You will need to configure your strategy to close the orders at the certain time. If I understand your question correctly the flatten everything utilized in a script or if selected any where within NinjaTrader will flatten all orders across all instruments regardless.

[richbois]

Hello,
Thank you for your response. You will need to configure your strategy to close the orders at the certain time. If I understand your question correctly the flatten everything utilized in a script or if selected any where within NinjaTrader will flatten all orders across all instruments regardless.

let me rephrase to make sure i understand
if i have this setup in the OPTIONS tab see below then every thing gets closed at the predetermine time if i untick the setting then it wont close everything

in the script i have this
protected override void Initialize()
{
ExitOnClose = true;
ExitOnCloseSeconds = 300;
TimeInForce = Cbi.TimeInForce.Day ;
CalculateOnBarClose = false;

then this strategy will close 300 seconds before the close

if ExitOnClose = false then nothing happens

and 1 more question how is the close determine by the session template ????

thanks again Ryan

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello,

Thank you for the reply.

Your understanding is correct, by not using the Flatten All in the options menu, you could then pick and choose the exit time for each strategy. The exit on close is determined by the session template you choose when configuring the strategy before you enable it.

Please let me know if I may be of additional assistance.

[richbois]

Hello,

Thank you for the reply.

Your understanding is correct, by not using the Flatten All in the options menu, you could then pick and choose the exit time for each strategy. The exit on close is determined by the session template you choose when configuring the strategy before you enable it.

Please let me know if I may be of additional assistance.

thank you i am clear now