Entry doesn't relate to chart?

[altrader]

Hi Guys, I'm seeing some strange behaviour in my strategy which maybe you can help with.

I'm connected to the GAIN demo feed and the sim account working on my first strategy.

When I load it up it will quite often show my entries in completely the wrong place e.g. I have some logic that will enter long when price crosses above MA ... on this example the entry price displayed is correct and the numbers correct if I print them to the output window but the chart (at exactly the same time) shows the entry at a different place.

I have another entry where the entry price seems correct but it's only displayed on the chart 40 minutes later, again at the wrong place.

And another where the plotting is again completely out ... so far that the entry and exit displayed on the chart are a full 100 pips above the price action. In fact, it seems rare that it's ever in the right place. The visual on the chart seems to be completely out of sync with what's happening in the strategy and the price action being recorded.

In almost every case (but not all) entry and exit are just plotted as vertical lines instead of the actual entry and exit (specifically I'm talking about exit here).

This seems very strange, and quite worrying, to me. Can anyone suggest an explanation or method of investigation?

I'm using NT 6.5.

Thanks,
Allan

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Hi Allan,

I suggest you first start by debugging via these two tips:

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3418

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3627

TraceOrders is especially useful for figuring out what your orders are doing. Start simply and add more and more layers of complexity to your system.

[altrader]

Thanks for the post Josh, been away for a couple of days.

For info I think what may have been happening was that the onBarUpdate method was being called by the bar close of another timeframe in my strategy so I've just used BarsInProgress to stop this.

cheers

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Glad you got it worked out.