Pivots

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

I am trying to call the Pivots indicator from within another indicator I am building to use the pivot points for some calculations, but I am having difficulty calling the indicator.

I tried "Pivots(Data.PivotRange.Daily,20);" to no avail. It is telling me it cannot convert "NinjaTrader.Data.PivotRange" to "NinjaTrader.Data.IDataSeries". What is the IDataSeries value I can put in there in order for this to work? Thank you.

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Please check out the methods signature provided by Intellisense:
Pivots(Data.IDataSeries input, int width)

This means you need to code something like:
Pivots(Input, 20).PivotRangeType = PivotRange.Daily; // extra code to change pivots type to daily
double val = Pivots(Input, 20).PP[0];

Note: the PivotRangeType is not supported yet as a parameter on the Pivots() method, that's why you'll need to the extra code line. We'll look into it and likely support it codewise by fall time frame

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Fabulous. Exactly what I was looking for. It works great thanks.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

This method doesn't seem to work when you try to set two variables to two different range types.

Pivots(Input, 20).PivotRangeType = PivotRange.Daily; // extra code to change pivots type to daily
double val = Pivots(Input, 20).PP[0];
Pivots(Input, 20).PivotRangeType = PivotRange.Weekly;
double val2 = Pivots(Input, 20).PP[0];

I was playing around with various Print() throughout to see where it messes up and this is what I've found. The indicator does acknowledge the change in PivotRangeTypes, but it does not recognize that you are calling Pivots twice. Once with the first PivotRangeType and once with the second. It seems to ignore the second PivotRangeType change completely. It takes the Daily and just does both val and val2 on Daily.

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Right, this will not work (unfortunately). We will address this issue with 6.5.