Need strategy indicator converted to an actual indicator. Need help.

[jimdog42]

Greetings NT Coders..

I've got a really simple snippet of code written in NT7 for a strategy that's actually an indicator. Long story short, I basically started writing strategy code (some really simple strategies) and I found I could fairly easily program simple on-screen strategies as indicators but never bothered to study how to do that as an actual indicator. Does that make any sense? Anywho-I really don't want to go through the learning curve right now, would anyone be kind enough to "convert" this to an indicator for me, it's super simple I promise.

Next time you're in Denver-first round's on me!

BWT-Has anybody taken a course from the LWU?

jDog

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

jimdog42, looks the script was actually unlocked and then amended by the editor? From a quick review it should be very straightforward to setup as indicator, just create yourself an empty indicator through the wizard (New NinjaScript > Indicator) and then copy over the Variables, Initialize and OnBarUpdate parts from your strategy. Hit F5 to compile everything in and you should be good to go.

[jimdog42]

Bertrand,

Oh, believe me, I've tried that very idea, and it won't compile w/o an error, and I'm certain I'm missing something really small like most things with coding, but for whatever reason I can't put my finger on it. This wouldn't be an issue, but as you know, I can't run the chart trader with a strategy running therefore I need it as an indicator.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

I see jimdog42, as a courtesy please find the logic as indicator attached for review, I've made sure overlay is set to true so its plots right on the price panel for your signals.

[jimdog42]

Ah... I'll spare you the details on what I was doing wrong now that I look at this.

Thank you

jDog

[jimdog42]

.... and now that I've compiled and run the code, it does exactly what it did when I tried to convert it, which is nothing. So there must be a little more to it than lift and replace.

Grrrr

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Worked for me here in a quick test - any log errors you get when applying that study?

You might need to add a CurrentBars check in for the indicator.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=3170