Display pips properly

[ctrlbrk]

How can I display a number as a pip, instead of as a decimal?

ie:

114'270 instead of 114.843750

Mike

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Hi Mike, unfortunately changing this is not possible.

[ctrlbrk]

Ok but there has to be some math that can fix this right?

How can I do a conversion from decimal to pips?

Mike

[snaphook]

How about, decimal * 32, as in ZB in 64 half pips per point, 32 pips per point.

.84375 * 32 = 27
.796875 * 32 = 25.5

Thanks for making me think about this one. I had been puzzling on it for days.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

I don't think you can compare Forex pips to the Bonds fractional display, for Mike original issue it's just a display one, as the ' just separates the sub pip (pipette) value of the quote.

[ctrlbrk]

Actually,

I am talking about the ZN instrument, wanting to be able to Print() the same value as is displayed on a chart.

I might be confusing pips since ZN is a future not FX, my bad.

Mike

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Ok, thanks for clarifying - have you tried snaphook's suggestion? There are some algorithms floating around if you search google, but I'm not aware of a straightforward C# method for it.

[roonius]

How can I display a number as a pip, instead of as a decimal?

ie:

114'270 instead of 114.843750

Mike

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
Print(FormatZN(Close[0]));
}

private string FormatZN(double price)
{
return String.Format("{0}'{1:000}", Math.Truncate(price), (price - Math.Truncate(price)) * 320);
}

[snaphook]

And depending on the number of pips in a point, the 320 (32 pips) would, for example, be changed to 500 (50 pips) or 640 (64 pips).

[ctrlbrk]

Awesome thank you guys.



Mike

[Mindset]

How to tell code to display one way or the other?

In Ts you could simply use if (pricescale = ...) but how do you do that in NinjaScript, please?

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Mindset, unfortunately I'm not aware of a method returning the pricescale, thanks for suggesting this.