Ticks and Prices and Offsets

[Turtle Trader]

Hello,

Can you tell me, is it possible for NinjaScript code to know how many decimal places are in the price of an instrument?

And what the tick value is?

Example: If I have a general strategy or indicator and I want to input a parm value that indicates a tick offset to the price. The offset is an integer.

But, in order to apply the offset to an instruments price, I need to know the tick precision (decimal places) and the value of each tick.

So, to add 5 ticks to the FDAX, for example, the price would move 2.5 cents, because each tick is worth .5 cents.

Look at 6J...with all those decimal places.

Perhaps another way to ask this...is how to add a certain number of ticks to a price to come up with the new price? Is there an easy way?

New Price = Old Price + (tick-offset * value per tick)?? thinking out loud.

Or, am I missing something? (newbie)

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Tim]

Hi Turtle Trader,

You can access the tick size with "TickSize", and multiply it as needed.

More info at - http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/H....html?TickSize

[Turtle Trader]

reply

perfect!

that will work.

[Turtle Trader]

ticksize not in context

I"m trying to accress ticksize in OnBarUpdate()

and get the message "The name 'ticksize' does not exist in the current context"
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code:

double tx;
tx = ticksize + 0;

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please advise.

[NinjaTrader_Tim]

Hi Turtle Trader,

The correct syntax is "TickSize" without the quotations.

Like all C# code, it is case sensitive.

[Turtle Trader]

que tonto!

you're right...thanks

never coded C or C# before...