Volume indicator drawing arrows on charts

[illcrx]

I have an indicator and I am having hard time with a few things.

I would like to view a 5 minute chart but when the volume for the day is .5 of the average volume for the past 20 days I want it to put an arrow on the chart.

The problem I am having is how to get the 5 minute chart and get an average daily volume?
I cant find where to do this.

Also how do I tell the program to put an arrow "when" the volume reaches .5 of the average daily volume. I know it can place arrows on price based on price data but Im not sure I can do it with volume. Would I have to create a different indicator then place the arrows based off of the secondary indicators signals or can this do it without this "help"

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello illcrx,
You have to build a multi series indicator to do it. Please refer to our help guide to know more about multi-series

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?multi_time_frame__instruments.htm

A basic code in your case will be like

In initialize
Add(PeriodType.Day, 1);

in OnBarUpdate

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
	if (CurrentBars[0] <0 || CurrentBars[1] < 0) return;
	
	
	if (BarsInProgress == 0)
	{
		if (VOL()[0] > SMA(Volumes[1], 20)[0] / 2 )
		{
		
			//do something
		}
	}
}

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?barsinprogress.htm

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?volumes.htm

Please let me know if I can assist you any further.

[illcrx]

Great, thanks for the quick response I'll check out those links!

[illcrx]

Errors when compiling

I am putting this here instead of a new thread because I dont want to hijack the Indicator Development thread.

Check out this picture, I am getting errors on lines where there are no text, or where there are comments.

I had an error before where I always got an error on line 37 no matter what, even when I compiled existing prebuilt indicators.

I also uploaded the code so you can try yourself, last time I had erroneous errors, it compiled fine for other people but not me, I had to delete all of my files and re install Ninja. I really dont want to have to do this once a week.

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello illcrx,
You have another code namely AvgVol, that has programming errors. Unless you rectify it no other NinjaScript code will get compiled or imported.

[illcrx]

Ok so you cant have any errors anywhere, now I get it. I had to delete a few programs then lol.

Thanks for your help!

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello illcrx,
Yes, when you compile a NinjaScript code all the files gets compiled and not just that code.