Strategy sends orders to the market even when Historical=true

[nicanor.babula]

Hi there,

II have a strategy that does a very strange thing:
it says orders to the exchange (real orders, to real exchange) when Historical=true.

1) Is this normal?

2) How can I then make a difference in ninjascript between orders sent in backtest and realtime strategy run?

Thanks!

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello nicanor.babula,

Thanks for your post.

No, that would not be expected.

Can you clarify how you are observing that real orders are sent when Historical is true? Please provide a screenshot of your observations.

[nicanor.babula]

Hi there,

I am simply reading the console output.

I put a

Print("Historical=" + Historical)

right after the call to

EnterLongStopLimit(..)

There's not much to show, really.

The strategy runs on 2 series (for futures):
main: 1 tick
secondary: 1 day bars

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello nicanor.babula,

Thanks for your reply.

A strategy will place historical orders on historical data. These are not sent to the exchange, they are in your PC only and show you what the strategy would have done.

Live/real-time orders placed by the strategy would show in the "executions" tab of the control center. If the strategy is connected to the Sim101 account then the orders would remain in your PC to be filled through the simulation engine. Only when the strategy is connected to your live account would live orders be sent to the exchange.

If you do not want your strategy to place historical orders you can add following as the first line of code in the OnBarUpdate() method:

if (Historical) return;

[nicanor.babula]

Thanks for the answer, but I can tell if an order is real or not. This was not backtesting, but real.

I added the strategy in the strategies tab, enabled it for live, then in the console I saw the log saying that the order has been sent and Historical=true and then I saw the order in the orders tab with status accepted.

I mean, the order ended up in the orders tab of the control center.

Please advise.

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello nicanor.babula,

Thanks for your reply.

Please write into PlatformSupport[at]NinjaTrader[dot]Com In the e-mail please attach your log and trace files as well as a screenshot of the Orders tab. In the subject line, please add Atten:Paul and a link to this thread.

Please follow the steps below to manually attach your log and trace files to your response so I may investigate this matter further.

Open your NinjaTrader folder under Documents.
Right click on the 'log' and 'trace' folders and select Send To> Compressed (zipped) Folder.
Send the 2 compressed folders as attachments to this email.
Once complete, you can delete these compressed folders.