Anchor Bar and detect short term momentum

[prodigaltrader]

Hi, I am new to Ninjatrader and also to C# programming. I have been trying to setup a concept and it requires some scripting to be done on Ninjatrader.

I am looking to identify the anchor bar that has at least 2 lower lows or lower closes and similarly, 2 higher highs or higher closes.

I need to store these details and then use them to identify whether there is a breakout. The bars need not be consecutive.

Also, I need to add labels to these anchor bars as well.

Is there a way to identify these and also to attach the labels. Thanks in advance.

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello prodigaltrader,

Thanks for your post and welcome to the NinjaTrader forums!

Are you using the Strategy Builder or coding directly in Ninjascript?

I'm not quite sure I understand your statement about the anchor bar relative to lower lows or higher highs. Are you asking about swing type patterns? Can you post a screenshot that illustrates what you are looking to do?

[prodigaltrader]

Hi, Thanks for the quick response.
As I said, I am new to Ninjatrader and I am trying to use Strategy Builder itself to essentially build my strategy.

Basically, I am trying to implement the Dow Theory (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dowtheory.asp) but with modifications.

I am trying to identify the anchor bars (please see the pic - sph and spl) for implementing this and also trying to see if it can help me identify the breakouts.

Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello prodigaltrader,

Thanks for your reply.

There is a "Dow Theory" indicator in the NT user apps that you may be interested in. Unfortunately, it would not help you in a strategy as it does not present plots that could be read by the strategy.

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I would suggest looking at the "Swing" indicator in your platform as it will determine the swing points that seem to match up with what you want. The swing indicator will however not register a change in the swing high until the "strength" number of bars has passed (their highs must be less than the swing point!) the high point (which is what validates the swing high (or swing low). In the strategy builder, you can access the swing high value or the swing low value and check to see if the current price has exceeded one or the other. You may just want tto put the swing indicator on your chart and adjust the strength settings to see if that will work for you.

Another approach, like the Dow Theory indicator does, would be to check to see if the current High is greater than the High of the last x period bars (or Low is less than the low that last x period bars) where x is the period you can define. You would use the MIN and MAX methods which are in the Strategy Builder under the Indicators folder.

To label the bars of interest, through the strategy builder, under the do the following section in the drawing folder is the "text" function and you will need to supply the text to display along with the Y location (Price) at which to display as well as what 'bar ago" to display it on.

Here are the educational resource available on the strategy builder:
Free live webinar every other Thursday at 4:00 PM EST, through this link to all webinars: https://ninjatrader.com/PlatformTraining
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Help guide for the strategy builder: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...gy_builder.htm

[prodigaltrader]

Hi,
Thanks for the response, I followed based on the advise mentioned in the discussion (https://ninjatrader.com/support/foru...swing-strategy)

i followed the steps and tried to add the Down Arrow, but this arrow doesnt appear for the charts that i am looking at. Can you please help? Does it require 1 min data itself for showing the details, I have used the daily chart. code snippet as below:

}
else if (State == State.Configure)
{
}
else if (State == State.DataLoaded)
{
Swing1 = Swing(Close, 5);
}
}

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
if (BarsInProgress != 0)
return;

if (CurrentBars[0] < 2)
return;

// Set 1
if ((Close[0] + (10 * TickSize)) < Swing1.SwingHigh[0])
{
Draw.ArrowDown(this, @"CheckStrategy Arrow down_2", true, 0, (High[0] + (5 * TickSize)) , Brushes.Red);
Draw.Text(this, @"CheckStrategy Text_1", @"SPH", 0, (High[0] + (10 * TickSize)) );
}

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello prodigaltrader,

Thanks for your reply.

The down arrow appears just above the 2nd candle from the right edge.

If you would like to see all of the arrows, you will need to modify the "tag name" to make the tag name "unique" for each arrow. When the same tag name is used, the previous arrow with the same tag name would be removed first and the new one drawn. You can only have one draw object per tag name.

Also, if you are using Daily bars, you will want to offset the candle more than 5 or 10 ticks, in order to keep it off the candle.

Here is a short video that will help with creating unique tag names: https://paul-ninjatrader.tinytake.co...MF8xMTMwNTc0MA