Newbie - Help with simple programming

[Maciek]

I am attempting to learn how to do simple programming to create strategies. I wish to just take the sum of all prices from 200 bars ago and display them.

I need help with:

When I attempt to compile, I get an error message saying sumBarPrice is already defined
Also, I would like to draw the number on the chart somewhere in the right top corner fixed... something like 'DrawTextFixed(string tag, string text, TextPosition textPosition)' but I am unsure of how to implement this this
Any help is greatly appreciated!

This is what I have so far using a for loop

namespace NinjaTrader.Indicator {

public class NewStrategy101 : Indicator
{
    #region Variables

    int sumBarPrice = 0;

    #endregion

    protected override void Initialize()
    {
        CalculateOnBarClose = true;

        for (int barsAgo = 0; barsAgo < 200; barsAgo++)
            {
                sumBarPrice = sumBarPrice + Input[barsAgo];
            }    
    }

    protected override void OnBarUpdate()
    {
    }

    #region Properties

    public int sumBarPrice
    {
        get { return sumBarPrice; }
        set { sumBarPrice = Math.Max(1, value); }
    }
    #endregion

}

}

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

I've highlighted in Red below where the error was coming from and correct it for you. You will want to ensure the Public variable for the property does not have the same namecase as the private variable. Notice how I've simply changed it from sumBarPrice to SumBarPrice

        #region Properties
        
[COLOR="Red"]        public int SumBarPrice[/COLOR]
        {
            get { return sumBarPrice; }
            set { sumBarPrice = Math.Max(1, value); }
        }
        #endregion
        
    }
}

Below is an example of how to use DrawTextFixed:

DrawTextFixed("myText", sumBarPrice.ToString(), TextPosition.TopRight);

Please let me know if you have additional questions.

[Maciek]

help!

This is what I have so far, I load the strategy but it doesn't seem to show anything on the chart I load it on. Help please! To summarize, I just want the sum of the last 200 bars of price data shown in the top right corner fixed.

namespace NinjaTrader.Strategy
{

    [Description("Take sum of last 200 bars")]
    public class Newbie101 : Strategy
    {
        #region Variables

        double sumBarPrice; 

        #endregion

        protected override void Initialize()
        {            
            for (int barsAgo = 0; barsAgo < 200; barsAgo++)
                {
                    sumBarPrice = sumBarPrice + Input[barsAgo];
                }
                
            DrawTextFixed("myText", sumBarPrice.ToString(), TextPosition.TopRight);
        }
        
        protected override void OnBarUpdate()
        {
        }
        
        #region Properties
        [Description("")]
        [GridCategory("Parameters")]
        public double SumBarPrice
        {
            get { return sumBarPrice; }
            set { sumBarPrice = Math.Max(1, value); }
        }
        #endregion

    }
}

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

Sorry, I missed this yesterday - you want to put your logic in OnBarUpdate().

Initialize() is only called when you first start the strategy. OnBarUpdate() will run through each historical bar on the chart and will continue to be called when each new bar is updated.

[Maciek]

I tried that but still I cannot see anything. Nothing is displayed

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

Check the log tab of the Control Center for any errors.

You'll also want to try using Print() statements to verify that the information that is being calculated is what you expect.

We've gathered more information on debugging your code in the thread below:

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=3418

Additionally, we have a native SUM() method to give you the summation of a data series:

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/summation_sum.htm

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
sumBarPrice = SUM(200)[0];

 DrawTextFixed("myText", sumBarPrice.ToString(), TextPosition.TopRight);
}

[Maciek]

This thing doesn't seem to do anything at all

DrawTextFixed("tag1", sumBarPrice.ToString(), TextPosition.TopRight);