ATR - calculate the ATR ticks for the last 7 days

[tomleeson]

Tom, I wasn't sure of your programming skills, so I didn't suggest anything too complicated from the start.

You can try this: run your ATR calculations from a daily chart, and then have your strategy communicate with that daily chart to retrieve the values. Here is a reference sample that demonstrates how to expose indicator values. The sample includes a strategy and an indicator--they work together and are a great example.

This is good yes i can see how that works ok. It may be better to extract and ecapsulate my signal logic into an indicator and then read it in the strategy - generic code maybe re used than for that gem...
For now however the my strategy times series is 89ticks - no decision making is made on the week chart period - only an indication of the typical oppurtunity of an instrument.
E.G ES 18 points ATR for the last 7 days...
arget 1 = 8% of daily ATR --- eg 8% of 21points
13% for target 2 and so on... -

I need to do this on any periodtype - the chart period will be 15 days.
The only constant variable (if that is possible) is the ATR ticks is represented by last 7 days...

[tomleeson]

BarsRequired = 20;

It can also be set via the UI when you add a strategy.

i will have a play