Writing indicator for MarketAnalyzer - 60min bars and CalculateOnBarClose=false

[adamus]

I want to display how far an instrument moved in the last bar, e.g. 60 min time frame.

I thought the easiest way to do this would be:

Value.Set(Close[0] - Close[1]);

and then to choose the time frame when adding the indicator as a column to the Market Analyzer.

I would like it to display how far it moved in the last 60 mins at any instant in time, not just the last 60 min bar on a chart i.e. 11:00 to 11:59. So I set CalculateOnBarClose to false.

However this doesn't show the results I am expecting. I think this shows how far it moved since the close of the last bar.

How should I achieve what I want? Shall I forget about trying to use 60 mins bars and use 10 second bars and just calculate the number of bars in a 60 min interval? Or is there a simpler way?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

adamus, correct this would show you how much the instrument moved since the Close[1].

What were you looking for? The Range of the bar instead?

Perhaps the High[0] - Close[1] and Low[0] - Close[1] difference taken as absolute would do?

[adamus]

It's difficult to be totally unambiguous about what I want, but i'll try.

I want the column in Market Analyzer to show how far the instrument has moved in the last x time periods at any instant in time.

i.e. if I choose 1 day, I want to see how far it has moved in the last 24 hours from now.

if I choose 1 hour and it's 13:45, I want to see how far it's moved since 12:45.

I initially thought it would be easiest to use the dataseries time frame to define what I want to see, but this isn't working the way I'm doing it - as you described.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

adamus, I see what you're saying - then you would need to custom calculate your hour reaching back from current time on a finer series.

[adamus]

OK, I've done it like that. It works well, although I restricted the parameters to just the number of minutes, instead of allowing a choice of time frame units.