How to call other indicators from code

[cassb]

I need one indicator to get the value of another one in the OnBarUpdate code. I'm having trouble with a particular (licensed and locked) indicator that keeps returning 0 as its value.

I can get values from these other indicators:

Standard indicator EMA(9)[0].ToString() = 1.33744268334864
Custom indicator SAFqt(9)[0].ToString() = 1.33678766781693

but this indicator returns 0 every time:
MA_Multicolor(2, 30, mAType, 30, 9)[0].ToString() = 0

This is a moving average indicator like the other two. I can't look at the source code because it's licensed. But I should be able to use the above statement to get its value, shouldn't I?

Bryan

[NinjaTrader_Brett]

Hello Bryan,

Seems like the indicator developer is using the following.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=23633&highlight=ChartOnly

Let me know if any questions.

-Brett

[cassb]

OK, thanks, you're probably right. Although the properties and methods from the indicator do appear when I just type in MA_Multicolor. and it then displays the possible values after the dot.

[NinjaTrader_Brett]

Yep, sounds about right. In either case we would need access to code to further isolate unfortunately.

-Brett

[VTtrader]

When calling an indicator that has the ChartOnly property set to true, I get an error message:

"Error on calling 'OnBarUpdate' method for indicator 'aa' on bar 0: The indicator 'AATestIndicator' is intended for visualization and can only be used on a chart."

So I'm not sure that is the problem in this case, with it returning 0.

VT

[cassb]

When calling an indicator that has the ChartOnly property set to true, I get an error message:

"Error on calling 'OnBarUpdate' method for indicator 'aa' on bar 0: The indicator 'AATestIndicator' is intended for visualization and can only be used on a chart."

So I'm not sure that is the problem in this case, with it returning 0.

VT

Hm... yeah, I don't get that message. But I'm still out of luck if it returns 0 every time.