How many Bars?

[alabell]

Multi Bar Strat:

I used to say:


if (CurrentBars[0] < BarsRequired || CurrentBars[1] < BarsRequired || CurrentBars[2] < BarsRequired || CurrentBars[3] < BarsRequired ||CurrentBars[4] < BarsRequired ||)
{return;}


and in so doing, I would never know which Bar was lacking in quantity.

I now say:

if (CurrentBars[0] < BarsRequired){Print("0");return;} //tick
if (CurrentBars[1] < BarsRequired){Print("1");return;} //day
if (CurrentBars[2] < BarsRequired){Print("2");return;} //min
if (CurrentBars[3] < BarsRequired){Print("3");return;} //sec
if (CurrentBars[4] < BarsRequired){Print("4");return;} //10 min



so that I know.

As it is, It seems that no matter how many Day bars I load, whichever bar is a day bar prints its BarsArray number due to lack of bars available (Chart calls for 5 but you only have 4 error).

Am I doing something egregiously wrong? If I load 3 days of data, and only need to calculate yesterday's Pivot Point, I set bars required to 1, and I get an error print on Bar 1 (day).

If I am calcing a 10 day SMA of volume, and I load 10 days of data, I get an error on Bar 1 (day).

If I am doing an intraday calc, and I load 2 days of data with two bars required, I get an error on Bar 1 (day).

I am obviously making a wholesale mistake because this happens Ad Nauseum. I have read the multibar strategy page in help dozens of times...

What am I missing?

Regards,

Andrew;}

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello Andrew,
Thanks for your note.

By default BarsRequired = 20; thus if you are loading 5 days of data, then then only 5 bars (even less if there is weekend) are being loaded for the Day = 1. Thus you are witnessing the scenario.

I would suggest loading the data as:

• Right click on the chart
• In the context menu click on Data Series
• In the Data Series dialog set the field "Load data based on" to Bars
• Set the field "Bars to load to say 50

Please try loading the code and see if you are able to run it or not.

[alabell]

Joydeep: does a saturday or sunday count as one bar?? I thought the default was to count trading days only...am I wrong?

Regards,

Andrew

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello Andrew,
If you load the data as Bars then NinjaTrader will load X bars, however if you load the data as Days, then NinjaTrader will load the data from X date to Y date.

[alabell]

Very good. TY as always Joydeep.

Regards.

Edit: Final question: assuming I am not charting, how do i code this syntactically for a group of ten stocks that use the same strategy?

Is there a line i can use within initialize?

Regards.

[alabell]

Actually, that remains an issue how to do this "outside of a chart" as i referenced below..?

[koganam]

Very good. TY as always Joydeep.

Regards.

Edit: Final question: assuming I am not charting, how do i code this syntactically for a group of ten stocks that use the same strategy?

Is there a line i can use within initialize?

Regards.

Have a look at this post: http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...515#post311515 in this thread: http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...507#post311507

[alabell]

TY Koganam. I will review this.

Best regards,

Andrew