Streamreader

[tinkerz]

Hi,

I am importing a txt file for a strategy I want to prove over the next few months, so as the txt file is created daily for import I have adapted streamreader to read the txt file

How do I get the data from the print command into a format that will go into an indicator, lets say an SMA

                                else if (splitCounter == 6)    
                                {
                                currentVolume = double.Parse(s);
                                Print("Current Day OHLC: " + date +  " " + currentOpen + " " + currentHigh + " " + currentLow + " " + currentClose + " " + currentVolume);                                
                                }

The above statement prints correctly

but I need to get there into a SMA, can I create a dataseries from there and then add in the SMA? is that the easiest way?

Or use an SMA template and add in the streamreader code?

Whats best?

Thanks

Tinkerz

[NinjaTrader_AdamP]

Tinkerz,

You would want to use a "DataSeries" if you are trying to pass the read-in data to a indicator.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?dataseries_class.htm

Say you create a "myDataSeries" to store all the read-in data.

Then you can call SMA like :

MyDataSeries.Set(readInValue); //readInvalue is whatever value you have read in from the text file
double output = SMA(myDataSeries,Period)[0]; // for example

This will use the data your have read into the MyDataSeries series as input for the SMA.