fh: SetStopLossTicks ... is it to cancel yet unfilled orders ?
07.06.2020 15.19

Algorithmic Trading with NinjaTrader

Frank

Tried to read through Average.FillPrice etc., but not yet understand exact concept and process of this method.



  • Yuri Zolotarev
    07.06.2020 17:53

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  • Frank
    07.06.2020 18:01

    ... pls if someone around who knows, let me know

  • Yuri Zolotarev
    07.06.2020 18:05

    _stop = ex.Order.AverageFillPrice + size;

    _stop - global variable that is used to store stop loss value

    ex -> this is an object that is passed by NinjaTrader into the OnExecutionUpdate method, when we put a dot after it we can extracts information about orders from it ex.Order.AverageFillPrice in this case will give us information about the fill price of the order. It is called average because if say you had 5 lots filled in an order by different prices due to slippage NinjaTrader will take an average from them and return it as the order fill price.

  • Frank
    07.06.2020 22:41

    k cool think got most of it, only:

    a) has SetStopOrders(false, ExitShortStopName) here not also be set to true, so in case of being in the market short i would true the corresponding SetStopOrders?

    b) what does the SetStopOrders(true, ExitLongStopName); exactly do ? Not sure if i got that right yet.

  • Yuri Zolotarev
    08.06.2020 09:47

    SetStopOrders is a method which sets stop orders. When you call a method you can pass parameters into the method. So you have a method called

    void SetStopOrders(bool isStopLong, string exitOrderName)

    This method has 2 parameters that you can pass into it and use inside it. In the example above SetStopOrders... is called from within SetStopLossTicks. In the first case it is called with isStopLong true and and in the second case it is called with isStopLong false. So, when these values arrive into the method we can see what type of order we are trying to set. In the first case we look if isStopLong is true and set the order for a long position and vice versa for if isStopLong is false.