Pivot error

[cleo4343]

Thanks,

This is in a custom indicator: It prints the correct value the first time, then the value 0 afterwards.

I have the logic all working if it is all in a stragey but I need logic with Pivot values in a seperate file. How would you reccomend I do this?



///<summary>
/// Called on each bar update event (incoming tick)
///</summary>
protectedoverridevoid OnBarUpdate()
{
// Use this method for calculating your indicator values. Assign a value to each
// plot below by replacing 'Close[0]' with your own formula.
Print("OnBarUpdate Indicator");
printOneZone();
}

///<summary>
/// Print only the pivot PP Daily
///</summary>
publicvoid printOneZone(){

double value = Pivots(PivotRange.Daily, HLCCalculationMode.DailyBars, 0, 0, 0, 20).PP[0];
Print ("printOneZone PP Daily Pivot value is:" + value.ToString());

}

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello Cleo,

Thank you for your response.

Please take the calculation logic of the printOneZone() and place this in the OnBarUpdate() method so that it runs in the OnBarUpdate() and advise if this still prints zero.

[cleo4343]

Thanks for the responce,

Yes I get the same thing:


Code:
///<summary>
/// Called on each bar update event (incoming tick)
///</summary>
protectedoverridevoid OnBarUpdate()
{
// Use this method for calculating your indicator values. Assign a value to each
// plot below by replacing 'Close[0]' with your own formula.
Print("OnBarUpdate Indicator");
double value = Pivots(PivotRange.Daily, HLCCalculationMode.DailyBars, 0, 0, 0, 20).PP[0];
Print (" OnBarUpdate PP Daily Pivot value is:" + value.ToString());
printOneZone();
}

///<summary>
/// Print only the pivot PP Daily
///</summary>
publicvoid printOneZone(){

double value = Pivots(PivotRange.Daily, HLCCalculationMode.DailyBars, 0, 0, 0, 20).PP[0];
Print ("printOneZone PP Daily Pivot value is:" + value.ToString());

}


Output Window:
OnBarUpdate Indicator
OnBarUpdate PP Daily Pivot value is:1.0628
printOneZone PP Daily Pivot value is:1.0628
OnBarUpdate Indicator
OnBarUpdate PP Daily Pivot value is:0
printOneZone PP Daily Pivot value is:0
OnBarUpdate Indicator
OnBarUpdate PP Daily Pivot value is:0
printOneZone PP Daily Pivot value is:0
OnBarUpdate Indicator
OnBarUpdate PP Daily Pivot value is:0
printOneZone PP Daily Pivot value is:0

Thanks,
Cleo

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello Cleo,

Thank you for your response.

Please attach your updated code to your response so I may test this matter on my end.

I look forward to your response.

[cleo4343]

Hello,

Step 1: Create a new chart (6S 06-13) With 5 Min interval
Step 2: Open and clear Output window
Step 3: Right click on chart and click on "Indicators"
Step 4: Add the PivotIndicatorTester indicator
Step 5: Verify output

Thanks for looking into this. I can get this to work fine in a strategy however I need this logic to be in a sperate file. The strategy has 2000 lines of code written by people I work with, and I do not want to touch it.

Thanks,
Cleo

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello Cleo,

Thank you for your patience.

When using HLCCalculationMode.DailyBars it can be expected that a value of 0 is returned when the daily bars have not been loaded yet. Due to the asynchronous nature of this indicator calling daily bars you should only access the pivot values when the indicator has loaded all required Bars objects. To ensure you are accessing accurate values you can use .ContainsValue() as a check:

// Checks that this is a valid pivot point value
if (Pivots(PivotRange.Daily, HLCCalculationMode.DailyBars, 0, 0, 0, 20).PP.ContainsValue(0))
{
    // Prints the current pivot point value
    double value = Pivots(PivotRange.Daily, HLCCalculationMode.DailyBars, 0, 0, 0, 20).PP[0];
    Print("The current Pivots' pivot value is " + value.ToString());
}

- Taken from Pivots in the NinjaTrader Help Guide under Indicator Methods: http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...nt7/pivots.htm

Please let me know if you have any questions.