Previous Swing High

[djkiwi]

Hi Guys, I was wondering how to get the previous swing high ? I have this code for the current swing high:

Print("The high of the swing bar is " + High[Math.Max(0, Swing(5).SwingHighBar(0, 1, 10))]);

Thanks
DJ

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Hi DJ, you would then refer back to one instance higher of the Swing High Bar found - http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h.../nt7/swing.htm

[djkiwi]

Previous Swing ValuesSwing

Hi and thanks Bertrand. Changing the instance from 1 to 2 is exactly what I did. For example this is what I tried including numerous other iterations:

DrawTextFixed("updowntick1",(High[Math.Max(1, Swing(5).SwingHighBar(0, 2, 10))]).ToString("N1"), bPosition,Color.White,textFontLarge, Color.Black, Color.Lime, 10);

DrawTextFixed("updowntick2",(Low[Math.Max(1, Swing(5).SwingLowBar(0, 2, 10))]).ToString("N1"), blPosition,Color.White,textFontLarge, Color.Black, Color.Lime, 10);

Attached is the chart. I was expecting to see values of 691.5 for the previous swing high and 685.9 for the previous swing low. Instead I got 681.9 and 684.0 respectively which I cannot make sense. I tried to increase look back period from 200 to 100 but that didn't help either. Am I missing the obvious here?

Thanks
DJ

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

DJ, please take a look at my screenshot attached - you would need to keep in mind when those levels would become accessible / known in realtime, the Swing indicator itself is more used as a visual chart aid to define market structure and as the chart progresses indicator values could be recalculated.

[MrOrange]

Hey Bertrand,

I am having a similar problem today, i hope you don't mind if i add to this thread.

I'm simply trying to figure out (as a starting point) if the current swing high is higher or lower than the previous swing high. I would have thought this would have done it, based on the document at http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/H...ide.html?Swing

So, here's what i tried:

if (High[Math.Max(0, Swing(5).SwingHighBar(0, 1, 50))] > High[Math.Max(0,Swing(5).SwingHighBar(0, 2, 50))]) Trend = Trend++;
else Trend = Trend--;

That didn't seem to work. I plot Trend, and it never goes above or below 0.

I tried a few other ideas, variations of the above, but no luck. Am i missing something? Perhaps there's something about that help document i'm not getting. Do you have any idea how to accomplish this?

Thanks!

[djkiwi]

Swings

Thanks Bertrand. Actually it does work after all. Here you go Mr Orange. I have put the value on the top left as per this piece of code. The values line up to my chart.

Cheers
DJ

[djkiwi]

Hi Bertrand, although it does work it's not doing what I want it to achieve after all. For example if you please look at the attached chart. You will see solid cyan lines below the price where the swing high has been breached I also have dotted cyan lines above the price which is the next swing high target. What I am trying to do is get the value of that next dotted swing high target above which is not necessarily the last swing high or even 5 swing highs back. Any ideas on this one would address a long outstanding issue.

Thanks in advance
DJ

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

DJ, glad to hear that worked - so you're trying to get the next price value where a prior swing high / low was found?

[djkiwi]

Swing High

Hi Bertrand, yes exactly. How do I get the the next highest swing high above the current price? i.e one that hasn't already been breached.

Cheers
DJ

[koganam]

Hi Bertrand, yes exactly. How do I get the the next highest swing high above the current price? i.e one that hasn't already been breached.

Cheers
DJ

You would likely have to create an ArrayList of the SwingHighs and of the SwingLows. Then test the ArrayList for the most recent Swing value that is outside the current price.

[MrOrange]

DJ, thanks for the code! One of the segments in it did just what i wanted!

[djkiwi]

Swing array

Hi Koganam and Bertrand, does anybody have any samples on how to do this array list? I don't have a clue on where to start.

Thanks
DJ

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

Hi DJ, a quick google search yielded some samples - http://www.dotnetperls.com/arraylist.

[djkiwi]

Hi Austin.thanks for the examples but I am unsure how to apply them to ninjatrader. Does anybody have an example relevant to ninjatrader? For example how would this apply to the unviolated swing highs and lows?

using System.Collections; class Program { static void Main() { // // Create an ArrayList and add three elements. // ArrayList list = new ArrayList(); list.Add("One"); list.Add("Two"); list.Add("Three"); } }

Thanks
DJ

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

HI DJ,

Arraylists are used in this sample.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=5790

Unfortunately we do not have a specific example storing swing points with them.