NT8B8 Bars.SessionIterator initial values

[patapata]

Hi,

I am using in an indicator

Bars.SessionIterator.ActualTradingDayEndLocal method in NT8 beta 8 with an ES (S&P500 Future) chart (Default trading hours) and data feed provided by Continuum Demo on state DataLoaded or in method OnBarUpdate, but it always returns 1800/01/01 00:00:00.

So it seems to be intial. Is it a bug in NT8 or a problem of the demo data feed or the data series or or or....?

Thank you for your assistance.

Regards,
patapata

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello patapata,

Thank you for your post.

You would need to create your own SessionIterator. For example:

SessionIterator sessionIterator = null;

protected override void OnStateChange()
{
if (State == State.Historical)
{
if(sessionIterator == null)
{
// create a new session iterator bases on the primary bars
sessionIterator = new SessionIterator(BarsArray[0]);
}
}
}

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
if(Bars.IsFirstBarOfSession)
sessionIterator.GetNextSession(Time[0], true);
}

[patapata]

Hello Patrick,

thank you very much, I understand that so far. But what about the sessioniterator of the bars object?

Excerpt from http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...oniterator.htm

"The default bars object will provide information related to real-time trading hours information".

The examples in the help guide and here in the forum always refer to the Bars.SessionIterator object, e.g. the example here:

http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/?gettradingdaybeginlocal.htm

Thank you for clarification,
patapata

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

patapata,

Thank you for your response.

The documentation will soon change to reflect that Bars.SessionIterator will be removed as it can cause errors in bar types. We can still create our own SessionIterator based on the BarsArray[0] though, which would be accurate to the bars object we need.

If you have questions on this please let me know.