Rising/falling

[staycool3_a]

"Checks for a rising condition which is true when the current value is greater than the value of 1 bar ago."

The definition of the built in rising NT function is above. What I'm trying to do is check to see if the slope of the regression channel is rising or falling. The above works most of the time, but sometimes, the major trend (I'm using 2 hour bars) is falling, but the 1 bar ago vs current bar is rising. Hence, the indicator does what it's suppose to do, check 1 bar ago, but for my purpose, it gives the wrong trading signal. What I want to be able to do is:

If most of the regression slope values for the past 100 bars on a 2 hour chart is falling; enter long/ short. How can I do this?

[rtwave]

i think i can help with the mathematics involved, but i'm sure i can't help with the programming at all.

if i understand correctly, you could posit your problem in the following way:

you have a regression channel slope with more than 100 values. you want to know whether most of the last 100 values are rising or falling. if a majority is rising you want the strategy to do something, if a majority is falling, do something else.

you could define a hundred substractions:

srch[0] - srch[1] (srch stands for slope of the regression channel for short) if this is positive, create a list that adds up all rising values and add 1 to it. if it is negative, create a list that adds up all falling values and add 1 to it. then repeat these operations through srch[98] - srch[99].

then, you could compare the rising and falling columns and if rising > falling code action 1, if rising < falling code action 2.

hope that can be of help.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello calhawk01,

Thank you for your post.

You can perform this with a for loop. Below I have included an example of how this could be performed.

 protected override void OnBarUpdate()
        {
			if (CurrentBar <= period)
				return;
			
			int midup = 0;
			int middn = 0;
			int upup = 0;
			int updn = 0;
			int loup = 0;
			int lodn = 0;
            for (int i = period-1; i > 0; i--)
			{
				if (RegressionChannel(20, 1)[i] <  RegressionChannel(20, 1)[i-1])
					midup++;
				if (RegressionChannel(20, 1)[i] >  RegressionChannel(20, 1)[i-1])
					middn++;
				if (RegressionChannel(20, 1).Upper[i] <  RegressionChannel(20, 1).Upper[i-1])
					upup++;
				if (RegressionChannel(20, 1).Upper[i] >  RegressionChannel(20, 1).Upper[i-1])
					updn++;
				if (RegressionChannel(20, 1).Lower[i] <  RegressionChannel(20, 1).Lower[i-1])
					loup++;
				if (RegressionChannel(20, 1).Lower[i] >  RegressionChannel(20, 1).Lower[i-1])
					lodn++;
			}
			Print(midup + " " + middn);
			Print(upup + " " + updn);
			Print(loup + " " + lodn);
			
			if (midup > middn)
				Print(Time[0] + " Mid line has more rising.");
			else if (midup < middn)
				Print(Time[0] + " Mid line has more falling.");
			
			if (upup > updn)
				Print(Time[0] + " Upper line has more rising.");
			else if (upup < updn)
				Print(Time[0] + " Upper line has more falling.");
			
			if (loup > lodn)
				Print(Time[0] + " Lower line has more rising.");
			else if (loup < lodn)
				Print(Time[0] + " Lower line has more falling.");
        }

You would need to define period as a user defined parameter: http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum...ead.php?t=5782

[staycool3_a]

Hello calhawk01,

Thank you for your post.

You can perform this with a for loop. Below I have included an example of how this could be performed.

 protected override void OnBarUpdate()
        {
            if (CurrentBar <= period)
                return;
            
            int midup = 0;
            int middn = 0;
            int upup = 0;
            int updn = 0;
            int loup = 0;
            int lodn = 0;
            for (int i = period-1; i > 0; i--)
            {
                if (RegressionChannel(20, 1)[i] <  RegressionChannel(20, 1)[i-1])
                    midup++;
                if (RegressionChannel(20, 1)[i] >  RegressionChannel(20, 1)[i-1])
                    middn++;
                if (RegressionChannel(20, 1).Upper[i] <  RegressionChannel(20, 1).Upper[i-1])
                    upup++;
                if (RegressionChannel(20, 1).Upper[i] >  RegressionChannel(20, 1).Upper[i-1])
                    updn++;
                if (RegressionChannel(20, 1).Lower[i] <  RegressionChannel(20, 1).Lower[i-1])
                    loup++;
                if (RegressionChannel(20, 1).Lower[i] >  RegressionChannel(20, 1).Lower[i-1])
                    lodn++;
            }
            Print(midup + " " + middn);
            Print(upup + " " + updn);
            Print(loup + " " + lodn);
            
            if (midup > middn)
                Print(Time[0] + " Mid line has more rising.");
            else if (midup < middn)
                Print(Time[0] + " Mid line has more falling.");
            
            if (upup > updn)
                Print(Time[0] + " Upper line has more rising.");
            else if (upup < updn)
                Print(Time[0] + " Upper line has more falling.");
            
            if (loup > lodn)
                Print(Time[0] + " Lower line has more rising.");
            else if (loup < lodn)
                Print(Time[0] + " Lower line has more falling.");
        }

You would need to define period as a user defined parameter: http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum...ead.php?t=5782

Pat you are the man! Thanks for the above code. I will test it when I get back home. Im curious what your thoughts are on a simpler solution:

Use price variable such as Close[0] but the input is a regression channel data. And then offset the close. So for example

Close[0] (input regressional channel) now is less than Close[0][10 bar ago] (input regressional channel)

and

Close[10 bars ago w/ regressional channel data] is less than close[50 bars ago w/ regression channel data]

[NinjaTrader_ZacharyG]

Hello calhawk01,

You should not be accessing historical values for the Regression Channel.

Per the help guide section for the Regression Channel indicator: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...on_channel.htm

You should not access historical values of this indicator since the values can change from bar to bar. The values from n bars ago does not reflect what the values of the current bar really are. It is suggested that you only access the current bar value for this indicator.