MTF - Consistent way to update primary based on secondary data

[vking]

Hello - Can any one help me with the following issue that I am running into in NinjaScript.

- Primary chart - tick based chart - say 1000 tick chart
- secondary series - 5 minute gets added as part of the code.

Flow:
- Calculate whether current time > 09:00 ( based on 5 minute chart ) and mark the bar(on primary) for which first tick is > 09:00. However the following code - doesn't work as expected due to the limitation of Ninja - where it always process primary series FIRST irrespective of the way the code is written.

Code:

        #region Variables
		private bool common=false;
		private int endTime=090000;
        #endregion

        protected override void Initialize()
        {
            CalculateOnBarClose = false;
            Overlay = true;
			Add(PeriodType.Minute, 5);
        }

        protected override void OnBarUpdate()
        {
			if (CurrentBars[0] < BarsRequired || CurrentBars[1] < BarsRequired) return;

            if (BarsInProgress == 1 && FirstTickOfBar && !common && ToTime(Time[1]) <= endTime && ToTime(Time[0]) > endTime) 
            {
				common=true;
				Print(Bars.Period + ":" + ToTime(Time[0]));
            }


	
            // Now is the condition is met - mark the color of the candle as blue 
            //- for this to work - the would expect the secondary series(5 minute) data to be  
           //processed first and then the primary as per this order 
           //- however - it doesn't work like that in Ninja ( irrespective of the code 
           //- it would always process primary first and then secondary series next 

            if (BarsInProgress == 0 && FirstTickOfBar && common) 
            {
                                common=false;
				BarColorSeries[0] = Color.Blue;
				Print(Bars.Period + ":" + ToTime(Time[0]));
            }
        }

At present - I don't get any blue candles for primary. Any solution to this problem at hand?

[Radical]

Maybe this is a dumb question, but why not just get the time from the primary data series?

[vking]

Radical - Thanks for the reply. This code is a very simplified version of what I am trying to do in Ninja.

- as a slightly expanded framework - I would like to have the High/Low for specific time period using 5 minute timeframe (exactly to the tick) and would like these values to be available to any type of primary chart that I pick. If I base the calculations on the primary chart - these values are NOT going to be accurate - say High/Low for the time range - 09:00 to 10:00 - I can't calculate this if I use 2 hour chart as primary. If I use 5 minute chart to calculate these values - I can use these values for the next 2 hour candle without any issues. I can use any type of chart for primary in that case.

Thanks.