Number of Last consecutive Bars

[horacioofman]

Hi,
I am trying to get an indicator which shows the number of last consecutive up or down bars.
I was not able to find any indicators that gives me this information. nbarsup and nbarsdown provides a 1 or 0 if the if the last n periods were in a trend.

What I need is a numerical count for how many bars/ periods the candles have been the same color.
If the candle 4 periods ago was green and the 3 more recent candles were all red, indicator should be -3.
Then if the last six candles were all green, indicator equal 6

Is this difficult to build?
Can you please help?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello horacioofman,

I'm not certain there is an existing method that has that specific functionality and you will likely need to do this in a for loop.

Starting at 0 bars ago (the current bar) to CurrentBar (the number of barsAgo to the first bar), compare if the index bar meets the criteria, if it does increment an integer as a counter, if it does not then break the loop.

int consecutiveBarsFound = 0;

for (int index = 0; index < CurrentBar; index++)
{
if (Close[index] < Open[index]) // your condition here
{
consecutiveBarsFound++;
}
else 
{
break;
}
}

Print(consecutiveBarsFound);

Below is a link to a support article on looping.

https://support.ninjatrader.com/s/article/Developer-Guide-Looping-Commands

https://support.ninjatrader.com/s/article/Developer-Guide-Basic-Programming-Concepts

[horacioofman]

HI Chelsea,

I managed to put together an indicator, but I am having a different issue now. I will open a different post for specifc problemshooting.

Thanks for your help