BarsSinceSession Conversion

[aligator]

Dear Support,

What is the NT8 conversion for the following NT7 bar index?:

             int barsSince = Bars.BarsSinceSession;

There is no code breaking for Bars.BarsSinceSession in "Help." However, there is a Bars.BarsSinceNewTradingDay, but I'm not sure produces the same results since new trading day is not the same as session.

Many Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello aligator,

Thanks for your post.

With reference to the code-breaking change section of the help guide, BarsSinceNewTradingDay is the NT8 equivalent of the NT7 BarsSinceSession:

Reference: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ng_changes.htm


If you are using a multisession trading day and want to keep track of the bars since each session begins, you can use the bool IsFirstBarOfSession as a starting point to set an int type counter and update the counter on each new bar.

For example:

if (Bars.IsFirstBarOfSession)
{
myBarsSinceSession = 1; // set/reset counter on each new session (you would need to create myBarsSinceSession as an int type variable)
}

if (IsFirstTickOfBar)
{
myBarsSinceSession++; // increment counter
}

References:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/?isfirstbarofsession.htm

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/?isfirsttickofbar.htm

[aligator]

Hello aligator,

Thanks for your post.

With reference to the code-breaking change section of the help guide, BarsSinceNewTradingDay is the NT8 equivalent of the NT7 BarsSinceSession:

Reference: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ng_changes.htm


If you are using a multisession trading day and want to keep track of the bars since each session begins, you can use the bool IsFirstBarOfSession as a starting point to set an int type counter and update the counter on each new bar.

For example:

if (Bars.IsFirstBarOfSession)
{
myBarsSinceSession = 1; // set/reset counter on each new session (you would need to create myBarsSinceSession as an int type variable)
}

if (IsFirstTickOfBar)
{
myBarsSinceSession++; // increment counter
}

References:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/?isfirstbarofsession.htm

https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ttickofbar.htm

Thank you so much Paul.

Cheers!