Not sending orders on CL Feb09

[shiptastic]

I have a strategy that is running fine on NG Feb09 and when I backtest it on CL Feb09 it shows that it would've placed several orders between when I turned it on and now. It however is not placing any orders on CL.

I have my settings set to wait until flat to submit orders, and I've confirmed that in the backtest there has been several hours since I turned the strategy on that the position was flat. My account position is also flat.

Looking in the logs I'm seeing the following weird thing though

Instrument='CL 01-09' Account='Sim101' Avg price=50.34 Quantity=5 Market position=Short

I'm running my strategy live and I've confirmed it's running on my actual account not Sim101. Is it possible that it is waiting for CL 01-09 Sim101 to be flat? I show no position for it in my positions tab and CL 01-09 is not even trading anymore.

Any ideas on if this Sim position could be stopping me from executing and if not...any other ideas?

Shiptastic

[NinjaTrader_Josh]

If you are linking the strategy to real-time it shouldn't be doing anything on the Sim101. You could try resetting your Sim101 account to eliminate any potential causes from there. Tools->Options->Simulator->Reset.

[shiptastic]

alrighty I tried resetting..we'll see if it goes in after the next flat period.

[NinjaTrader_Josh]

shiptastic,

The script needs to be flat as defined by the script. If the script still thinks it has a virtual position it will not trade and this will require debugging to understand its behavior.

[shiptastic]

Figured out the problem. I wasn't aware of the Reset DB ability in the options. Interestingly, in my "Position" tab I showed no position, but after looking through the list of executions on the last Crude execution it did not show a value of flat. After resetting the db everything worked.

Thanks,

Shiptastic

[NinjaTrader_Josh]

Great! Glad you got it resolved.