not firsttickofbar

[tonynt]

Hello,

I know how to work with COBC=false and FirstTickOfBar. But as I have 2 setups in the script and there occur issues with orderhandling if both setups are true the same tick I want to add to my 2nd setup "not FirstTickOfBar". How one can do this please?

...
&& FirstTickOfBar // this is clear

....
&& NOT FirstTickofBar //how to write in the script please?
(with ....&& FirstTickofBar == false (???))

Thank you

Best
Tony

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Tony, yes you could check for FirstTickOfBar == false or ! FirstTickOfBar. FirstTickOfBar is just a bool.
Then once your order handling is done I would ensure via a boolflag that this code is not continuously run throughout rest of the tick updates for the bar you're on.

[tonynt]

Thank you!

Tony, yes you could check for FirstTickOfBar == false or ! FirstTickOfBar. FirstTickOfBar is just a bool.
Then once your order handling is done I would ensure via a boolflag that this code is not continuously run throughout rest of the tick updates for the bar you're on.

[tonynt]

Hello,

with COBC=false and entryconditions

if(FirstTickOfBar
&& Close[0] > Low[0]
&& Position.MarketPosition == MarketPosition.Flat)

it works correctly with forex but not with futures. There is no entry. How can this be?

(Dataseries: NinjaTrader Range-Bar)

Thanks
Tony

Tony, yes you could check for FirstTickOfBar == false or ! FirstTickOfBar. FirstTickOfBar is just a bool.
Then once your order handling is done I would ensure via a boolflag that this code is not continuously run throughout rest of the tick updates for the bar you're on.

[Harry]

Hello,

with COBC=false and entryconditions

if(FirstTickOfBar
&& Close[0] > Low[0]
&& Position.MarketPosition == MarketPosition.Flat)

it works correctly with forex but not with futures. There is no entry. How can this be?

(Dataseries: NinjaTrader Range-Bar)

Thanks
Tony

This is a funny idea. A tick means a trade. After the first tick of bar, a single trade has been registered. Let us assume that the trade was transacted at a price p. In that case
you have

Open[0] = High[0] = Low[0] = Close[0] = p

Therefore the condition Close[0] > Low[0] is always false, and you will never enter a trade. This your script works for futures as expected.

I am more puzzled about the FOREX side of your observation. The only explanation that comes to my mind, is that the FOREX data may be based on bid/ask data, and that in fact the data shown on your screen is midpoint data as opposed to trade data. In that case you would have

Low[0] = bid, High[0] = ask & Open[0] = Close[0] = midpoint

which would explain why the Low[0] is smaller than Close[0], a condition which cannot hold true, if you just exploit trade data.

[tonynt]

Harry,

thank you very much for your reply. The idea is to enter a trade after close of bar with COBC=false. On NT support sites I found it and I thought this would work: http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...nt7/index.html

Please, how would you do for having the entry after close of bar? (I need the entry with a reversal-bar in a range chart)

Thank you!

Best regards
Tony

This is a funny idea. A tick means a trade. After the first tick of bar, a single trade has been registered. Let us assume that the trade was transacted at a price p. In that case
you have

Open[0] = High[0] = Low[0] = Close[0] = p

Therefore the condition Close[0] > Low[0] is always false, and you will never enter a trade. This your script works for futures as expected.

I am more puzzled about the FOREX side of your observation. The only explanation that comes to my mind, is that the FOREX data may be based on bid/ask data, and that in fact the data shown on your screen is midpoint data as opposed to trade data. In that case you would have

Low[0] = bid, High[0] = ask & Open[0] = Close[0] = midpoint

which would explain why the Low[0] is smaller than Close[0], a condition which cannot hold true, if you just exploit trade data.

[Harry]

Harry,

thank you very much for your reply. The idea is to enter a trade after close of bar with COBC=false. On NT support sites I found it and I thought this would work: http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...nt7/index.html

Please, how would you do for having the entry after close of bar? (I need the entry with a reversal-bar in a range chart)

Thank you!

Best regards
Tony

With COBC = false, you probably want to compare open and close of the prior completed bar. For a reversal you could use the condition

if(FirstTickOfBar && Close[1] > Open [1] && Close[2] < Open[2])

FirstTickOfBar : this is the first tick of the new bar
Close[1] > Open[1] : the prior bar was an upclose
Close[2] < Open[2] : the second but the last bar was a downclose

[tonynt]

Harry,

thank you for your help!

Have a great day!

Best regards
Tony

With COBC = false, you probably want to compare open and close of the prior completed bar. For a reversal you could use the condition

if(FirstTickOfBar && Close[1] > Open [1] && Close[2] < Open[2])

FirstTickOfBar : this is the first tick of the new bar
Close[1] > Open[1] : the prior bar was an upclose
Close[2] < Open[2] : the second but the last bar was a downclose