Position object scope

[GibbsB613]

When OnBarUpdate fires, what is the scope of the Position object? Can I reference it in custom created procedures? Can you show me how to solve this using Ninjatrader.CBI?

How would I do this so that my procedure AdjustStopLimit would know the value of that property?

// Long position
if (Position.MarketPosition == MarketPosition.Long)
{
AdjustStopLimit(Position.MarketPosition);
}

// Short position
else if (Position.MarketPosition == MarketPosition.Short)
{
AdjustStopLimit(Position.MarketPosition);
}

protected void AdjustStopLimit( ????????? )

Thanks in advance!

[NinjaTrader_JessicaP]

Hello GibbsB613, and thank you for your questions.

Before I get into any specifics, I would like to mention that NinjaTrader.CBI is used much less frequently in NinjaTrader 8 than it has been in NinjaTrader 7. Many methods that were previously only available through this object, including NinjaTrader.CBI.Globals objects, have now been promoted to fully documented and supported methods. As such, rather than demonstrating using NinjaTrader.CBI, I will instead be speaking from the help guide documentation.

When OnBarUpdate fires, what is the scope of the Position object? Can I reference it in custom created procedures?

The help guide documentation is now organized into a tree. All objects commonly available to any kind of NinjaScript are in a "Common" section. Position, as shown in the attached image, is a property of Strategy. From its documentation,

Represents position related information that pertains to an instance of a strategy.

We see that this is a non-static member of the current strategy. Your strategy instance can use its own Position member however you see fit, and can pass it to other methods. As far as whether this is public, if we attempt to use IntelliSense as shown in the second image, we find that this is a public member of a strategy instance, which can be accessed outside a strategy instance.

How would I do this so that my procedure AdjustStopLimit would know the value of that property?

Your method signature would look like this :

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protected void AdjustStopLimit(Position myPosition)[/FONT]

Please let us know if there are any other ways we can help.