consecutive losses

[maaz1598]

hi i need some help with some ninjascript
what i am trying to do is print something when there is 3 consecutive losses and print again when there is another 3 new consecutive losses
here is the code i have come up with so far, the problem with this code is that it keeps printing on the forth and 5th losses and so on (see image to better understand my point )

any solutions

protected override void OnPositionUpdate(Cbi.Position position, double averagePrice,
      int quantity, Cbi.MarketPosition marketPosition)
{
  
	
	
  if ( Position.MarketPosition == MarketPosition.Flat)
  {
    if (SystemPerformance.AllTrades.Count > 3)
    {
      Trade lastTrade1 = 
      SystemPerformance.AllTrades[SystemPerformance.AllTrades.Count 
      - 1];
      Trade lastTrade2 = 
      SystemPerformance.AllTrades[SystemPerformance.AllTrades.Count 
    -   2];
      Trade lastTrade3 = 
      SystemPerformance.AllTrades[SystemPerformance.AllTrades.Count 
      - 3];
							
      if(lastTrade1.ProfitPercent    <    0 && lastTrade2.ProfitPercent    <    0 && 
      lastTrade3.ProfitPercent    <    0  )
       {
         Print("three consecutive losses") ;
        }
     }
  }

}

thanks in advance

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello,

Thank you for the post.

I wanted to check, does this logic need to be in OnPositionUpdate specifically? Based on what I can see it looks like once you place a trade, this logic would be executed a few times in the same order as it runs through its states resulting in the prints you are seeing.

To stop it from printing multiple times, you would likely need to check if the order was filled as one idea, this could be completed using OnExecutionUpdate.
Another idea may be to use a bool variable. Once the print has occurred once, set a variable to true. In the condition that surrounds the prints, you could then check for this bool variable.If it is true do nothing, if it is false print one and set it to true. This would require resetting the variable somewhere in your logic as well.

I look forward to being of further assistance.

[koganam]

hi i need some help with some ninjascript
what i am trying to do is print something when there is 3 consecutive losses and print again when there is another 3 new consecutive losses
here is the code i have come up with so far, the problem with this code is that it keeps printing on the forth and 5th losses and so on (see image to better understand my point )

any solutions

protected override void OnPositionUpdate(Cbi.Position position, double averagePrice,
      int quantity, Cbi.MarketPosition marketPosition)
{
  
	
	
  if ( Position.MarketPosition == MarketPosition.Flat)
  {
    if (SystemPerformance.AllTrades.Count > 3)
    {
      Trade lastTrade1 = 
      SystemPerformance.AllTrades[SystemPerformance.AllTrades.Count 
      - 1];
      Trade lastTrade2 = 
      SystemPerformance.AllTrades[SystemPerformance.AllTrades.Count 
    -   2];
      Trade lastTrade3 = 
      SystemPerformance.AllTrades[SystemPerformance.AllTrades.Count 
      - 3];
							
      if(lastTrade1.ProfitPercent    <    0 && lastTrade2.ProfitPercent    <    0 && 
      lastTrade3.ProfitPercent    <    0  )
       {
         Print("three consecutive losses") ;
        }
     }
  }

}

thanks in advance

Your code as written does not look defective, but will result in the code being run any time that a position changes, including if you made another entry, for example; a place where it would clearly be unnecessary to get the information that this code calculates and presents.

Better might be this psuedocode, run when there is an execution update.

if the last execution was a target order or a stop loss
and the last trade was a loss
update an accumulator
else reset the accumulator to zero.

Then wherever you want to know, check the accumulator to see how many consecutive losses have been accumulated.

Not to talk down at you, but as usual, when we first write down the technical spec. of what we want to do, the coding becomes almost trivial.