Solution to use dates within another indicator

[suprsnipes]

Hi,

I was hoping I could get some suggestions as to possible solutions to a problem.

What I would like to know is can I have X amount of dates in indicator1 and with indicator2 check somehow to see if any of the dates within indicator1 match today's date & if so then do 'code here'? I obviously don't want to use Streamreader or ReadAllText & as there are so many dates I don't want to expose them individually as I'm sure (even though I don't know how) that there is a far better solution?

Thanks for your kind help,
suprsnipes

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello suprsnipes,

Thank you for your post.

Pass the Time[0].Date as a StringSeries in Indicator one, expose this Series and then call it from the second indicator and compare against Time[0].Date.

For information on StringSeries please visit the following link: http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...ries_class.htm

For information on exposing variables that are not plots please visit the following link: http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...ead.php?t=4991

[suprsnipes]

Hi,

Thanks for your response. I have read both the links provided and I apologize in advance however I am still confused about how I can utilize this. Do I have to expose each variable on individually? I don't really want to do that.

Could you please provide additional clarification?

For example I have 10 dates as follows;

            20070108
            20070207
            20070307
            20070406
            20070507
            20070607
            20070709
            20070807
            20070910
            20071005

Do you think you could provide some sample code for this?

Regards,
suprsnipes

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello suprsnipes,

Thank you for your response.

Below is the example of the indicator that pulls the time to be compared by the other:

        #region Variables
		private StringSeries myString;
        #endregion
		
		protected override void Initialize()
		{
			myString = new StringSeries(this);
		}

        protected override void OnBarUpdate()
        {
			myString[0] = Time[0].Date.ToString();
        }
		
        #region Properties
        [Browsable(false)]
        [XmlIgnore()]
        public StringSeries MyString
        {
            get { return myString; }
        }
        #endregion

Below is how I use a for loop to check against the base indicator's dates by using for loop:

        #region Variables
		private int period = 20;
        #endregion
		
		protected override void Initialize()
		{
			
		}

        protected override void OnBarUpdate()
        {
			for(int i = 0; i < period; i++)
			{
				if(Time[0].Date.ToString() == Test1().MyString[i])
				{
					Print("Match!");
				}
			}
        }

[suprsnipes]

Thanks very much Patrick, your sample was extremely helpful.