Simultaneous entry and exit stopping strategy

[ShruggedAtlas]

I have a situation where an entry occurs at the same time another exit occurs and this seems to be causing a conflict which stops the strategy from taking any more trades. Pictures included.

logic for my exits and entries is as follows:

when Position.Quantity = 3000 and (condition) exit long 2000

when Position.Quantity = 9000 and (condition) exit long 6000

I want to force them to occur consecutively not at the same time. It seems that when the first condition is met and exits 2000 first when in fact I want it to exit the 6000 first. By exiting backwards the exit condition defined by position.quantity is not ever met since it's looking for a value of 9000.

Any ideas on how to work around this?

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hello ShruggedAtlas,

Thanks for the post.

It is hard to say exactly what could be wrong without code snippets, but you might need to set up some boolean flags to be used in concert with your entry/exit conditions. You would set the flag to inhibit the larger position from exiting before the smaller one.

If you still experience the issue after setting this up please post some code snippets from OnBarUpate and I will take a look.

[ShruggedAtlas]

That may very well be that I would need to get down to the code but I'm not sure why I can't do this using just the strategy builder wizard. I've included a couple of pictures to show more clearly what I want to happen.

after LE3 exits, LE2 should exit but it doesn't exit until after L3 enters and exits two more time. I don't understand why it isn't exiting after the first time.


OK I THINK I GOT IT

Changing cross.above to greater fixes the problem