Starting a Strategy

[Trader17]

If I want to manually turn on and off a strategy while watching the screen for certain market conditions, what is the lag time to start it once I check the enabled box? Right now I see it waits for a few bars to start. Is there a way it can do so immediately on the next bar or tick?

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello Trader17,

Thank you for the post.

This, in general, is going to depend on your script, but it will at the least take a short time to enable and process OnBarUpdate if you are enabling and disabling. I would likely suggest using a button for this to enable its logic but leave the script enabled.

One simple example is the UserControlCollection: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ub=usercontrol

You could add a button to the chart to toggle a boolean value to turn logic on and off.

I look forward to being of further assistance.

[Trader17]

Thanks. What I noticed is if a strategy calculates on the close of a bar and I enable it before the bar closes it will not take that setup but wait for the next one to come along. I thought it it would start looking on the next tick when started.