Hello,

I want to automatically start a strategy with the platform.
The problem is that when the strategy immediately gets started the platform hasn't enough time to receive historical data.
This means that methods like getStartTimeOfCurrentBar() or getLastTick() return null when called from onStart().
When I manually start the strategy I don't have this problem.

Now my question is: How can I make sure that the data is ready when I'm in the onStart() method?

consider the following onStart method:

   private Instrument instrument = Instrument.EURUSD;
   private IConsole console;
   private IHistory history;

   @Override
   public void onStart(IContext context) throws JFException {
      this.console = context.getConsole();
      this.history = context.getHistory();
      console.getOut().println("Start");

      // wait max 5 seconds for the tick to get loaded
      ITick lastTick = history.getLastTick(instrument);
      int i = 5;
      while (lastTick == null) {
         console.getOut().println("tick not loaded yet");
         lastTick = history.getLastTick(instrument);
         try {
            Thread.sleep(1000);
         } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            console.getOut().println(e.getMessage());
         }
         i--;
      }
   }