Visualisation of Account properties

[Nathamus]

Hello Ninjas!

I would like to plot some account information in a subplot under my chart while running a strategy on that chart. These information help to observe the over all development of a running strategy and are useful for back testing purpose, because they can help to identify "difficult" situations.

When I create a new indicator, obviously the following code does not work:

Plot_Quantity.Set(Position.Quantity);

There is no Position.Quantity in the scope of this indicator (it belongs to the strategy I guess) and I get a message which says that a Object Reference is needed. How can this be provided?

When I create anther indicator using

Plot_CumProfit.Set(Performance.AllTrades.Performan ce.Currency.CumProfit);

I get a message telling me the NinjaTrader.Strategy.Performance does not contain a definition for AllTrades (it may sound different because I translated this to English).

Can somebody tell me what to do? Can I create an additionalsubplot (overlay = false) inside a strategy?

thx

Nathamus

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

A strategy object can't drive plots. You will need an indicator to do this. I am not sure if this will work but what I would try is adding an input Strategy to an indicator. Take a look at other indicators and how inputs are defined and declared as a property under the properties section of an indicator.

In the OnBarUpdate() of the indidcator do something like:

if (MyStrategy != null)
Plot.Set(MyStrategy.Performance.AllTrades.Performa nce.Currency.CumProfit);


In your strategy Initialize() do something like:

Add(MyIndicator(this));



This is beyond what we are really able to provide technical support for and does require some fundamental knowledgeof C# programming.

Ray