why it buying

[mary reed]

why is my nt buying without me know about it ...when i log on it already buy !!

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

NinjaTrader does not initiate entries without direct involvement from its user.

It would be helpful if you could provide us additional information so we could help you determine what happened.

[KBJ]

I saw something similar to this today. I was at a friend's house and she was doing live trades on her Vista machine and running another copy of NinjaTrader on her XP laptop to display some additional charts in simulation mode.

Mid-afternoon, the laptop popped up a message saying that a trade had been rejected or blocked or something like that. I looked to see if there were any strategies running and there were none. There was no SuperDOM and no chart trader, etc.

I was quite puzzled about where this message might have come from.

I'm planning on stopping over at her house tomorrow afternoon. Is there anything (log, etc.) that I can look at to get you more data on what might have happened here?

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Take a look at the trace logs along with the regular logs. They are in the \My Documents\NinjaTrader 6.5 folder.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

KBJ,

If she was on a Zen-Fire demo, these logins are shared and sometimes the orders get sent to the underlying account and a message would pop up on all users logged into that specific account.

[KBJ]

Ray: That explains it. Nothing to lose any sleep over. Thanks.

[Sunrise]

There is another way this can happen - It happened to me.

My Broker accidently closed out my position on YM futures at around 3:10pm (CT). I was suprised and noticed that that Ninja reported it as 'External'. As I would have closed it out 5mins later there was no issue.

BUT that same person at the brokerage must have realised their mistake - so what did they do - they REENTERED the position !! This was at 3:50 pm and it was lucky that I was at my desk. Again this was reported by NT as 'External'.

As you can imagine I rang up my Broker and placed a few choice words.

The Moral of this story? Always keep an eye on your account and yes, sometimes your Broker can screw up.

Oh and yes - it was not Ninja's fault. In fact I liked the fact that it showed the order as EXTERNAL - so I knew it was not me or my PC.

(Live account)

Sunrise

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Thanks Sunrise for the very clear explanation of another situation that can occur.