Three Bar Simple Moving Average Cross Over

[stock_wizard_49]

Hi, I am trying to get a purchase signal off of a Price Close three periods after a cross over of a 10 period Simple Moving Average (SMA).

How would you construct this using the Strategy Builder Conditions Wizard ensuring that each of the past three periods have closed green after the cross over.

Please see the images attached to this thread.

Thank you.

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello stock_wizard_49,

Thanks for your post and welcome to the NinjaTrader forums!

One way to accomplish your goal would be to save the bar number where the cross condition occurs in one set and in another set check to see if the cross occurred 3 bars ago and check that the 3 previous bars Close[] is greater then the Open[] for each of the 3 bars.

I've created an educational example that you can test with. It will show a gold vertical bar on each cross condition and then a blue vertical bar when there are 3 green bars after the cross.

To accomplish the math of the current bars check, a custom int series is used called CrossUpEvent.
In set 1 (the sequence of sets is important), there are no conditions so that on every bar update the previous bar of the CrossUpEvent series is updated to the current bar value.
In set 2 is the cross condition and the actions are to save the CurrentBar (the bar where the cross occurred) into the custom series and to color the backpanel a yellow color.
In set 3, the condition is checked to see if the CrossUpEvent + 3 is equal to the CurrentBar value (meaning 3 bars have passed since the last cross. Also that the Close is greater than the open for the last 3 bars. The action is to then color the backplane a blue.

Here is a screenshot example:




I've attached the educational example here: ExampleCrossthen3Upbars.zip


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