Identifying the rightmost bar

[rcheezem]

I'm trying to do a historical study. I am count the total number of bars and the number of bars where the previous bar's close equals the current bar's open. When I get to the rightmost bar, I want to print the counts to the output window.

My question is how do I identify when I'm at the rightmost bar?

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

Hi Rcheezem,

Thank you for posting.

If you want the bar being currently built you will need to change the CalculateOnBarClose to false for that to be the CurrentBar or Bar index [0]. Otherwise if COBC is set to true then the second bar to the right becomes the CurrentBar or Bar index[0].

Please take a look at the link below on the CalculateOnBarClose.
http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...onbarclose.htm

Let me know if I can be of further assistance.

[rcheezem]

Cal, thank you for your help. But I still don't understand. When I set CalculateOnBarClose to false, I keep getting updates on each tick (I think). Could you show me a simple code sample.

Cal here is my code. I hope it will help show you what I'm trying to do.

protectedoverridevoid OnBarUpdate()
{
if (CurrentBar < 2)
{
totalBarsCounted++;
return;
}

// Use this method for calculating your indicator values. Assign a value to each
// plot below by replacing 'Close[0]' with your own formula.
totalBarsCounted++;
if (Close[1] != Open[0]) totalGapCount++ ;

// I would like to print this line once per chart.

Print("Bars Counted so far are: " + totalBarsCounted +
" Gap Count is " + totalGapCount +
" Percent of Gaps: " + (double)totalGapCount / totalBarsCounted );
}

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

Rcheezem,

Not sure if I quite follow,
What are trying to accomplish with this code?

[rcheezem]

What I'm trying to do is count the number of daily bars that have a GAP. I want to print the counts (totalBarCount and totalGapCount) when the indicator gets to the last bar on the chart. I don't know how to recognize the last bar on the chart. In fact the last bar may not be complete (Closed).

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

Rcheezem,

There are a couple things to understand here -

Firstly, the chart bars will work from right to left. Meaning CurrentBar or Bar[0] will be the right most closed bar on the chart. When the bar being built by the data feed gets closed it will become Bar[0] and the previous Bar[0] will become Bar[1].

When CalculateOnBarClose is set to false, OnBarUpdate() will get called with each incoming tick. Additionally, the bar being built by the data feed becomes Bar[0] and the bar to the left of it becomes Bar[1].

You can use 'Count' to print out how many bars are currently on the chart.

Print(Count);

Here is a link for the Count function -
http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...html?count.htm

Let me know if I can help further