Trade Email

[MichaelAlexander]

I am trading with NT8. Can I get an email when my Auto strategy has opened/closed a trade? if so how can i do this?

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hello MichaelAlexander,

Thank you for the post.

You may use the SendMail() function to automate sending emails. You must configure an email account as a default "Mail" Share Service from the General Options before you use this.

More on SendMail:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/?sendmail.htm

More on configuring a share service (see "Managing Share Services"):

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/?general_section.htm

The function will be used like so:

EnterLong();
SendMail("[email protected]", "Trade Alert", "Submit buy order");

If we may be of any further assistance, please let us know.

[music_p13]

Hello MichaelAlexander,

Thank you for the post.

You may use the SendMail() function to automate sending emails. You must configure an email account as a default "Mail" Share Service from the General Options before you use this.

More on SendMail:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/?sendmail.htm

More on configuring a share service (see "Managing Share Services"):

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/?general_section.htm

The function will be used like so:

EnterLong();
SendMail("[email protected]", "Trade Alert", "Submit buy order");

If we may be of any further assistance, please let us know.

Hello,

Is there any way to capture screenshot along with auto-email? Any "unsupported" code to do it?

Looks like we need to use Automation library to activate particular control, then use "Drawing" library to capture screenshot and save locally, and then ShareService to attach image to the email. Any examples on how to accomplish first 2 steps?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hello,

Thank you for the reply.

There is an undocumented way to do this.

Please download the example indicator from this thread that takes a screenshot with NinjaScript, post #34:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?p=474845

Note: You will need to add two namespaces to your Using declarations:

using System.IO;
using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;

Creating a screenshot requires a three-step process:

1.Get a chart object
2.Call GetScreenshot() on that object to get a BitMap
3.Save the result

Then you can use the Share overload that takes a system path to the screenshot.

Also, keep in mind that this example uses a Dispatcher to run the job asynchronously.

Please let us know if you have any questions.