Open Range Indicator

[sh_daggett]

Hey Harry,

I haven't had time to install and run it, but it looks fantastic! Nice work! Thanks for posting and for documenting it for users. Nice.

Scott

[wbweston]

Nice work, thanks for coding this up. Works great!

[delta20]

This is really great!

Would you mind if I use some of this code.

I am trying to create a strategy strictly for personal back testing purposes where the entry is a break of the frist 30 minute range with a pre defined target.

This is probably way beyond my programming skills but I do not like to use other people's code without asking.

[sh_daggett]

By all means. Thanks for asking. As it says in the code:

"Feel free to copy, modify, share and use to your heart's content. Use at your own risk."

Did you get the latest version here?

[richbois]

Hi

I have modified your script a bit and I am trying to get a strategy to read from this indicator

I am looking for the RangeHigh and RangeLow but my strategy will not find either of these or neither of the highestHigh or lowestLow

Any ideas what i am doing wrong

Thanks in advance

Richard

[sh_daggett]

Hi

I have modified your script a bit and I am trying to get a strategy to read from this indicator

I am looking for the RangeHigh and RangeLow but my strategy will not find either of these or neither of the highestHigh or lowestLow

Any ideas what i am doing wrong

Thanks in advance

Richard

Any chance you could show me the Initialize() and OnStartUp() methods of your strategy that you are trying to use this from? Also, are you using the latest Opening Range 4? Opening Range 4 has some methods and properties for getting at the data you're looking for from a strategy, and a flag to tell you if the day's range is in yet. Let me know.

[richbois]

Any chance you could show me the Initialize() and OnStartUp() methods of your strategy that you are trying to use this from? Also, are you using the latest Opening Range 4? Opening Range 4 has some methods and properties for getting at the data you're looking for from a strategy, and a flag to tell you if the day's range is in yet. Let me know.

Hi Scott

I used version 3 but will look into v4

Here is the Initialize section the Onstartup is only for the use of Buttons that i have on the chart (see Picture)

There is also a reference in the Variables section to the YONhilo indicator

#region Initialize
protectedoverridevoid Initialize()
{
ExitOnClose = true;
ExitOnCloseSeconds = 60;
TimeInForce = Cbi.TimeInForce.Day ;
CalculateOnBarClose = false;

theYONhilo = YONhilo();
this.Add(theYONhilo);

}
#endregion

[sh_daggett]

Hi Scott

I used version 3 but will look into v4

Here is the Initialize section the Onstartup is only for the use of Buttons that i have on the chart (see Picture)

There is also a reference in the Variables section to the YONhilo indicator

#region Initialize
protectedoverridevoid Initialize()
{
ExitOnClose = true;
ExitOnCloseSeconds = 60;
TimeInForce = Cbi.TimeInForce.Day ;
CalculateOnBarClose = false;

theYONhilo = YONhilo();
this.Add(theYONhilo);

}
#endregion

Richard,

Try the following approach, as I had a similar problem when using ZigZag from another indicator and this helped. I'm basically moving the creation of the indicator instance to the OnStartUp() method from Initialize().

#region Initialize
protectedoverridevoid Initialize()
{
ExitOnClose = true;
ExitOnCloseSeconds = 60;
TimeInForce = Cbi.TimeInForce.Day ;
CalculateOnBarClose = false;
}

protected override void OnStartUp()
{
theYONhilo = YONhilo(); // Or you could just use OpeningRange4 instead
this.Add(theYONhilo);
}
#endregion

Then, you can use TodaysRangeIsIn to see if the opening range is in, and then use the other methods to get at the range high and low (GetRangeHighForDate(DateTime) and GetRangeLowForDate(DateTime) ). You can also use the DataSeries properties, RangeHighSeries and RangeLowSeries if you'd rather use that approach.

Let me know if that helps.

Scott

[richbois]

Thank you Scott

I received a private message that told me to post my original question in the Strategy section of the forum and i did

With that answer, I finished the strategy and all seems to work

The answer was YONhilo().RangeHigh[1] and that gets the info from that indicator

If i used OpenRange it would be OpenRange().RangeHigh[1]

The only thing i wonder is if your way of doing it would make it faster and better

Thanks again for your help

[sh_daggett]

Thank you Scott

I received a private message that told me to post my original question in the Strategy section of the forum and i did

With that answer, I finished the strategy and all seems to work

The answer was YONhilo().RangeHigh[1] and that gets the info from that indicator

If i used OpenRange it would be OpenRange().RangeHigh[1]

The only thing i wonder is if your way of doing it would make it faster and better

Thanks again for your help

I'm glad you got it working. I rewrote the indicator to make it work better when used from strategies, but I can't say it is faster. Just "better" from an old coder's perspective. Also, it uses plots instead of lines, and I like that better.

Cheers!

[aiither2005]

thank uuuuuuuuuu

[aiither2005]

i cant put it in mt4 ! how can i make that piz

[richbois]

i cant put it in mt4 ! how can i make that piz

Indicators that are design for NinjaTrader are not in the same language as MT4 and therefore will never work.

you have to rewrite it into their language

[aiither2005]

thank you --- but how can i make it or how can i downlod this platform?

[richbois]

goto the home page is you want to download the Ninja software

http://www.ninjatrader.com/

if not you can find someone to program this indi for MT4