When is Time[0] active

[ballboy11]

I have some logic in indicator and was wondering when Time[0] becomes the the current bar on the chart. When i did a printout it was the very first bar on the chart.

I have this statement

if (Time[0] > drawList[nIndex].Time)
{

I use this function only at startup

i used this
if (CurrentBar == 2)
{
}

and it doesn't work;


if I keep it out it will work but because of the loop logic it will take a while to load.

How do you get around this issue?

[NinjaTrader_AlanP]

Hello ballboy11,

Thank you for writing in.

Every bar draw on a chart will have been at a time, Time[0]. For example, when a chart is drawn, the bars are drawn on the chart from left to right, and on each bar being drawn, it is the current bar.

If you wanted to prevent the issue where old historical bars are Time[0], you could add the following to the top of your code,k

if(State ==State.Historical) return;

The above will cause the script to only run in real time.

Please let us know if you need further assistance.