GetAccountValue not Working NT7

[brirob14]

Hello NT Forum. I have read several posts of traders attempting to position size their trades based on their current account value. One common function keeps coming up and it is GetAccountValue(AccountItem.CashValue).

I am attempting a simple print statement to verify the statement pulls my actual account value and on both my live trading account as well as SIM it prints 0 to the output window.

Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks.


Brian

[koganam]

Hello NT Forum. I have read several posts of traders attempting to position size their trades based on their current account value. One common function keeps coming up and it is GetAccountValue(AccountItem.CashValue).

I am attempting a simple print statement to verify the statement pulls my actual account value and on both my live trading account as well as SIM it prints 0 to the output window.

Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks.


Brian

ref: https://ninjatrader.com/support/foru...38&postcount=1

[brirob14]

Many thanks! The print statement in the second segment of code worked perfectly so now I'm going to investigate the first segment of code. I know I can get to the account value now for sure.

BR,


Brian

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Thank you, koganam for your response.

Hello Brian,

Thank you for your post.

GetAccountValue(AccountItem.CashValue) will only work in real-time and does not pull a value historically.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

[brirob14]

Agreed

Thanks Patrick; that is how I understood the functionality also and my print test was within a strategy enabled on my live trading account in a real time situation.

That is what baffles me and why I submitted the post.

Any ideas?



Brian

[koganam]

Thanks Patrick; that is how I understood the functionality also and my print test was within a strategy enabled on my live trading account in a real time situation.

That is what baffles me and why I submitted the post.

Any ideas?



Brian

There is not much more to it than that. If you read the entire thread in which I originally placed that response, you will see so. Realtime only, but the method must still be called with the correct syntax, or it, identically, returns zero.