EnerLong on bar close (Daily bar)

[newdill]

Hi,

I am backtesting a system that will open a position by the end of the day if to go long before the close of market. Therefor, I want to enter the position on a price that will be equal to the Close of the current bar. When I EnterLong the position is being opened only on the next bar (tomorrow). IsFirstTickOfBar does not work as well, as the historic data is day.

Any idea how to enter the position on current bar close?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello newdill,

Welcome to the NinjaTrader forums!

When NinjaTrader is running with Calculate set to OnBarClose, orders are placed after the bar closes using logic calculated from that bar.

Below is a link to the help guide on the Calculate property.
http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG.../calculate.htm

This means that any orders that are triggered from that bar are submitted after the bar closes as the new bar opens. As the order is placed as the new bar opens and the timestamp of the order is within the time of the next bar, the order will show on the next bar.

If the strategy were running with Calculate as OnPriceChange or OnEachTick, or if the script has intra-bar granularity with AddDataSeries() and submitted orders on a smaller timeframe, this would cause the timestamp of the order to be within the bar it is triggered on as the order may be submitted intra-bar. This order would show on the same bar as the bar that triggered the order submission.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/adddataseries.htm

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/backtesting_ninjascript_strate.htm

In historical data, Calculate will always be OnBarClose unless TickReplay is enabled for the data series.
https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ick_replay.htm

This is outlined in the help guide Discrepancies: Real-Time vs Backtest.
http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...ime_vs_bac.htm

Also, below is a link to a forum thread about intra-bar granularity.
http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum...297#post491297