Adding 2nd target

October 14th, 2010, 08:41 AM

Hi there,

i have made a strategy in the strategy wizard and i wanted to add an 2nd contract with a higher target, but when i add the target it wont work, aldough the code seems to be right (i can adjust the settings when starting up the strategy, and no errors occur.)

What i did was simply copying the current target and stop and made it target 2 and stop 2. can someone tell me what i need to do more?

I've watched big mikes advanced strategy coding video but if i do his part of coding for the stops NT is giving errors all over the place.

October 14th, 2010, 08:46 AM

Ryan,

You need to tell us if you're on 6.5 or 7 and the "type" of entry syntax you're using... There are different methods.

ie EnterLong()...

kz

October 14th, 2010, 10:27 AM

Hi there,

i use this entry:

EnterLong(DefaultQuantity, "");

and i`m coding in NT 7

This is my current stop and profit code, it does work but uses only the first target.

Quoting

[Description("")]
[GridCategory("Parameters")]
publicint Target1
{
get { return Profit1; }
set { Profit1 = Math.Max(1, value); }
}
[Description("")]
[GridCategory("Parameters")]
publicint Target2
{
get { return Profit2; }
set { Profit2 = Math.Max(1, value); }
}

[Description("")]
[GridCategory("Parameters")]
publicint Stop1
{
get { return stop1; }
set { stop1 = Math.Max(1, value); }
}

[Description("")]
[GridCategory("Parameters")]
publicint Stop2
{
get { return stop2; }
set { stop2 = Math.Max(1, value); }

October 14th, 2010, 02:57 PM

Please supply screen shots of the code working (print statements for entrys please), both versions with and without the second target, and is there any errors in the compile or the control centre log???

TJ

October 14th, 2010, 03:30 PM

Thank you guy`s for the support!

when i start the strategy this stands in the outputwindow:

Quoting

**NT** Enabling NinjaScript strategy 'Slingshot/0070cb6b45cc4b76ba388ab3d83877ae' : On starting a real-time strategy - StrategySync=WaitUntilFlat SyncAccountPosition=True EntryHandling=UniqueEntries EntriesPerDirection=2 StopTargetHandling=ByStrategyPosition ErrorHandling=StopStrategyCancelOrdersClosePositions ExitOnClose=False Set order quantity by=Strategy ConnectionLossHandling=KeepRunning DisconnectDelaySeconds=10 CancelEntryOrdersOnDisable=False CancelExitOrdersOnDisable=True MaxRestarts=4 in 5 minutes

in the ninjascript editor it has absolutely no errors at all.

Screenshot added of the strategy that has 2 entry`s and 2 stops.
the other system with 1 stop is exactly the same but then without the 2 entry`s

October 14th, 2010, 05:05 PM

I will have to watch for comment, but I 'think' you can only use 1 value for StopLoss in NT (without using custom code) ... you can check this out if you swap around the values for Stop1 and Stop2 and see which gets used. ...

TJ

October 14th, 2010, 06:12 PM

ryanb,

Are you trying to setup 2 orders with different profit targets and stop loss? If so you need to give each entry order a name within the double quotes when you call EnterLong and then associate that order name with the respective exit order calls to use target1 and stop1, target2 and stop2. This will associate your different PT and SL with each order.

hope that helps,
gulabv

October 15th, 2010, 08:51 AM

thanks gulabv,

i wanted to create one entry and 2 targets, but i just made 2 entry`s on 1 signal with 2 diffirent names and that did the trick!

now i`m going to set a break even on it as well

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