Does CurrentBar constantly increment in RT?

[grose]

Hi,

I'm using NT 6.5. I want to write an indicator that updates with each tick, looking for a particular price event to occur within the forming bar - timewise, it could happen anywhere in the bar, so I can't use calculate on bar close (this indicator is for tick and range bars). However, I do only want to process the event once per bar.

My thought was to use CurrentBar -- update a variable with the CurrentBar value when the event occurs, and then respond to the event again only when the value of CurrentBar has changed.

Some TA programs support a fixed number of bars loaded, so CurrentBar is always the same value! So my question is, assuming you start NT for intra-day trading, and bars of course are continually created, does CurrentBar itself always show a new, larger value with each new bar? (My feed is Zenfire).

Thanks!

Regards,

Gordon

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

Yes! Think of CurrentBar as the count of bars on the chart at any time. It starts at zero on the left and as the chart grows it increases to x number bars and is incremented each new bar...by one:

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/CurrentBar.html