Running a NinjaScriptStrategy from a Chart

You can run a NinjaScript strategy in real-time in a live or simulation account within a NinjaTrader chart.

Setup Tips

Following are some key points and instructions on on how to run a NinjaScript strategy from a chart.

•	NinjaTrader MUST be connected to a live brokerage or market data vendor. You can also use the Market Replay or Simulated Data Feed connections as well.

•	Strategy menu options will NOT appear if not connected live

•	You can not run Chart Trader on a chart while you have a running strategy applied to the chart

•	On terminating (stop running) a strategy, all strategy generated trade markers or draw objects will be removed from the chart

•	A NinjaScript strategy is a self contained automated trading system and orders generated are live and not virtual. Cancelling strategy generated orders manually can cause your strategy to stop executing as you designed it. If you want to manually cancel an order, terminate the strategy itself.

•	Running and disabled strategies are also displayed in the Control Center window Strategies tab

•	If running an FX strategy, please review the "Running FX Strategies" section for critical information

Running a NinjaScript Strategy (see image below)

To run a NinjaScript strategy within a chart:

1.	Within an open chart, either select the Strategies... menu from within the right mouse button click context menu, the Strategies icon from the tool bar or press the default CTRL + S Hot Key on your keyboard to bring up the Strategies dialog window

2.	You can add/remove and set up live strategies from within the Strategies dialog window pictured to the right:

1. List of available strategies

2. List of applied strategies to run on the chart

3. Selected strategy's properties

3.	From the list of available strategies (section 1 in the image below) select a strategy and either press the New button or double click on the strategy

4.	Once added to the list of applied strategies (section 2 in the image below), you can now edit the strategy's properties

5.	Set the strategies properties (section 3 in the image below). You must set the property Enabled to True to actually turn on the strategy.

6.	Press the "OK" button to run the strategy

To terminate (stop running) a strategy, you can highlight a running strategy and press the Remove button within the Strategy dialog window which would completely remove the strategy from the chart and Control Center's Strategies tab. Alternatively you can set the Enabled property to False to simply disable the strategy and allow you to re-enable the strategy at a later point in time without needing to reparameterize it.

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Strategy Properties

The image below shows the adjustable properties for a strategy available in the Strategies dialog window (see the "How to run a NinjaScript strategy in a chart" section above):

Parameters section	Sets any strategy specific user defined inputs
Account	Sets the account the strategy will execute orders in
Calculate on bar close	If true, will only calculate the strategy's value on the close of a bar. If false, will calculate the strategy's value on each incoming tick.
Enabled	Enables or disables the active strategy
Input series	Please see the Input series section for further information.
Label	Sets a text label that will be displayed on the chart to represent the strategy
Maximum bars look back	Sets the maximum number of historical bars to use for strategy calculations. The TwoHundredFiftySix setting is the most memory friendly.
Min. bars required	Sets the minimum number of bars required before the backtest will start processing
Fill Type	Sets the algorithm for processing and filling orders on the historical data portion of the chart
Slippage	Sets the slippage amount in ticks for the historical portion of the chart
Entries per direction	Sets the maximum number of entries allowed per direction while a position is active based on the "Entry handling" property
Entry handling	Sets the manner in how entry orders are handled. If set to "AllEntries", the strategy will process all entry orders until the maximum allowable entries set by the "Entries per direction" property has been reached while in an open position. If set to "UniqueEntries", strategy will process entry orders until the maximum allowable entries set by the "Entries per direction" property per each uniquely named entry.
Exit on close	When enabled, open positions are closed on the last bar of a session
Exit on close seconds	Sets the number of seconds prior to the end of a session when open positions of a strategy will be closed
Stop & target submission	Sets how stop and target orders are submitted
Sync account position	Enables or disables an automatic attempt to sync the account position and strategy position.
Set order quantity	Sets how the order size is determined, options are: "by default quantity" - User defined order size "by strategy" - Takes the order size specified programmatically within the strategy "by account" - Allows you to set a virtual account value that is used to determine maximum order size based on margin settings per instrument set in the Instrument Manager
Time in force	Sets the order's time in force

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