Isolate beginning and ending time for indicator calc

[staycool3_a]

Hi, any ideas how I can ask the indicator to use only first 30 min of trading day to do the calculations?

For example. How can I get the ATR for an instrument for the first 30 min. I suppose I can add the atr to a chart and scroll back to see what that value was in the first 30 min. But my goal is to:

Atr( for only the first 30 min of trading for the past 20 days)

So now we have two variables:
One is isolating the intraday trading time (30 min)
Second is for the past 20 days

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

calhawk01, the indicator will always use the trading hours of your session template specified, you could not point to using another template for example internally for calculations of custom time portions only.

What you can of course look into is working out the average values for the past 20 sessions via a custom list for example, where you would store the range for your time period and then take the average.

[arbuthnot]

I was very interested to read your reply, Bertrand.

I'd really like to know how to creat a "custom list" and if you could give some advice and/or point me in the right direction, I'd be very grateful.

Cheers.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Sure, closest I think as a working example for such an idea would be the SessionPivots indicator package from our sharing - http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...d=4&linkid=343

It will calculate the noise and range via a list.

[arbuthnot]

Thanks, Bertrand. I imported SessionPivots and it all seemed to go well and I even restarted NT.

The trouble is, I can find SessionPivots neither in the chart Indicator box nor in 'Edit Indicator'.

Does it have another name once in the system?

Thanks for letting me know.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

arbuthnot, please check under anaCurrentDayOHLV42 - that should be the class name of the study.

[arbuthnot]

Thanks, Bertrand - found it under anaCurrentDayOHLV42, as you said.

There's a mass of code there but I'm sure I'll learn a lot!

Cheers.

[staycool3_a]

 Plot0.Set(
            if(CrossAbove(Close, CurrentDayOHL().CurrentOpen[0],1))
            {
                ++    1;
            }
            
                          )

i'm trying to count the above condition everytime it becomes true. the above doesn't even compile.. let alone adding the condition to count. any idea what i should do? i look at the trade limiter example but it seems strategy codes are different that indicator codes

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

calhawk01, I would not expect that to compile, you're not really having any variable to count with here.

I would create an int variable and then increase each time the condition is hit in OnBarUpdate()

if (condition)
myCounter++;

Then you can later plot that variable's content for example.