New to programing simple ninja question

[roadtrader]

Hi

I'm trying to set up a strategy that would execute a buy after two conditions have been meet.
First condition price or high to cross over a MA envelope top band and then pulls back and buy around the MA plus or minus a few ticks that would be a variable that I can adjust. I don;t want it to look back a specific amount of bars, just when it crosses the top band and it pulls back to the MA buy. Even if the buy condition comes in after a few bars, it doesn't have to be the next bar. My issue is when I try to do it through the wizard is looking for both conditions on the last bar. Been looking in the forums and can find an example that I could look at to learn from it. Any help with this would greatly be appreciated.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello roadtrader,

Thank you for your post and welcome to the NinjaTrader Support Forum!

I have created a video on this matter, you may view this video at the following link: http://screencast.com/t/GPSS8KuC

Please let me know if you have any questions.

[roadtrader]

Thanks, let me play with this and see how it goes. I think I got the concept of setting a variable when condition one is met and then then if the variable is true and the second condition happens to execute the action.

[roadtrader]

Question, I don't know how far back the strategy looking to see if my first condition (variable 1) is true. because is executing trades that have not come from hitting by top bad recently. How do I control that. If you need me to send you a picture I can do that. Thanks for your help beginning to get some of this.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello roadtrader,

Thank you for your response.

Attached is a screenshot of the Condition Builder. When you select CrossAbove or Below you will see a LookBack Period, this is the number of bars to check for the cross condition.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

[roadtrader]

Hello Patrick thanks for your help. I have tried playing with the lookback period and results don't change, I'm sending you a picture of three bad trades and one that it actually did what I'm trying to do. Attached a PDF file with picture. I had the look back period at 5 for this example

[roadtrader]

This is the code so far

[koganam]

Hello Patrick thanks for your help. I have tried playing with the lookback period and results don't change, I'm sending you a picture of three bad trades and one that it actually did what I'm trying to do. Attached a PDF file with picture. I had the look back period at 5 for this example

Without seeing your code, it is hard to be certain, but your results would seem to indicate that you are triggering off a cross of the moving average itself, rather than the offset band.

[roadtrader]

Code

Here is the simple code

[roadtrader]

picture

PDF picture

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello roadtrader,

Thank you for your response.

Variable0 is never set back to 0, so the second entry condition stays true after the first condition is true once. Add Variable0 = 0 in the second condition when you EnterLong().

Please let me know if you have any questions.