Best way to isolate close of bar, first bar of session?

[SIFTrader]

Hi all,
Can someone advise what is the best way to code for determining a new session and specifically, at the close of that first bar for the new session?

I had assumed I should use:

If (Bars.SessionBreak)
{ reset daily variables here}

However, it appears that SessionBreak is calling my code like a tick bar even though I have this indicator set to only update on close.

Specifically, getting High[0] during that event, which should be the high of the first days bar, is actually being set to the close of the first bar, implying it is calling SessionBreak like a tick situation where the last tick would be both the close and the "high".

I also tried some other time stuff with no luck...

Anyway, could someone please post the basic code for trapping the first bar of the day, at the close of that bar?

Thanks

[SIFTrader]

Well, rebuilding from scratch seems to have cleared it up...Bars.SessionBreak now works as I would have expected...no idea why it was behaving like a tick chart earlier.

Anyway, please let me know if there is a better way to do it, otherwise, it does seem that Bars.SessionBreak is working...though I don't know if this depends on the session time for the chart, or if its doing a date compare (i.e. at midnight)?

thanks

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

Have you tried FirstBarOfSession?:

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/FirstBarOfSession.html

[SIFTrader]

Hello,

Have you tried FirstBarOfSession?:
http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/H...OfSession.html

Yes, I did and it didn't work - I didn't investigate, but it definitely stopped my indicator from plotting anything.

SessionBreak was the only one that worked for me (in terms of what I expected).

I am not clear if FirstBarofSession failed because I had made a custom chart to only show the Day session, and perhaps it was triggered with the first bar of the night session (AM), which would have zero for all points (i.e. high of first bar)?

Any tips on when to use FirstBarOfSession vs. SessionBreak would be appreciated

thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

SIFTrader, not sure I follow follow - in NinjaTrader 6.5 session definitions are entered for each chart in the chart properties (session begin, end times), so please doublecheck those when using those related methods.

In NinjaTrader 7 as Session manager was added, so you could refer to predefined or custom templates - http://www.ninjatrader.com/webnew/NT7/NinjaTrader7.html

[SIFTrader]

Thanks Bertrand, I am looking forward to Ninja7.

My comments about having customized the session time on that chart were because I was not able to differentiate why SessionBreak did trap the first bar on the chart, but FirstBarOfSession did not.

I was speculating that perhaps FirstBarofSession was hardwired to map to the Exchanges session time rather than chart time, meaning it would return invalid in my scenario since the true first bar of session in TF is the first bar of the evening open.

Anyway, sounds like that is not why...

If you could clarify when we should use SessionBreak vs. FirstBarofSession that would help me continue my porting from TS since I don't have access to NT7.

It seems these bars are two different words for the same thing (first bar of your charts session) but I am sure there is some underlying distinction and I thus want to ensure I am using the right one at the right time to avoid any problems.

Thanks!

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Please use FirstBarOfSession along with FirstTickOfBar if you want the very very first OnBarUpdate() event. I believe SessionBreak is being deprecated in NT7.

[SIFTrader]

Please use FirstBarOfSession along with FirstTickOfBar if you want the very very first OnBarUpdate() event. I believe SessionBreak is being deprecated in NT7.

Great, thank you.

Of interest - I was only able to make my indicator plot properly/work using FirstBarofSession if I prefaced it with a "if currentbar < 20 return" statement.

That was not needed with SessionBreak for it to work.

Anyway, just wanted to note it in case other hit it changing to FirstBarofSession.

Otherwise, it is working as expected and thanks for the guidance.