Multiple Time Frame Issue

[Harry]

The problem here is that NinjaTrader cannot correctly add daily bars to any DataSeries.
I have written numerous posts about this subject, but my posts have been ignored.


Daily bars problem

For example

double close1        = Closes[1][1];

will only work when being connected to a datafeed. As soon as you disconnect and refresh the chart, NinjaTrader will not be able to access the correct close. If you wish to call daily data you can only do it the way it has been done for the pivots indicator that ships with NinjaTrader. Please copy the code from that indicator for calling daily data. Also the pivots indicator has some bugs, as it does not correctly call the prior day's data for all trading days.

BarsRequiredToPlot

BarsRequiredToPlot does not affect the calculation of any Series<double> objects. All objects will be calculated, but not displayed. BarsRequiredToPlot is applied to the primary bars, and there is no logical need to apply it to the secondary bar series. Anything like

if (CurrentBars[0] <= BarsRequiredToPlot || CurrentBars[1] <= BarsRequiredToPlot) return;

does not make sense. It is important to understand what BarsRequiredToPlot is good for. For example if you calculate a EMA(20), the values calculated for the first 60 something bars are false. Therefore you do not wish to display them, and you would ideally set BarsRequiredToPlot = 3* period. This avoids displaying false results on your chart.

Each indicator has a training period, where you wish to perform calculations, but not yet display the results, because they are inaccurate. If you do not perform the calculations during the training period (as you did with your code) then you will simply need to wait for 120 bars (60 hidden and 60 false bars) before your indicator works correctly.

Just check CurrentBars[0] and CurrentBars[1] against the value 0. That is entirely sufficient.