Inconsistent Bar coloring

[simpletrades]

In the code, 'dist' is the spread between the bar's high and its low.

If I set dist to 5, sometimes ir recolors if the high-low is only 5 and sometimes it doesnt. It always recolors when the spread is > 5.

// Condition set 1
if (High[0]-Low[0] >= (TickSize*dist)//0.1
&& Close[0] > Open[0])
{
BarColor = Color.Lime;
}

// Condition set 2
if (High[0]-Low[0] >= (TickSize*dist) //0.1
&& Close[0] < Open[0])
{
BarColor = Color.DeepPink;
}

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

simpletrades,

Thank you for your post.

When the BarColors are not plotting correctly, are you getting any errors on the Log tab of the Control Center? If so, what do these errors report?

I look forward to assisting you further.

[simpletrades]

i have not been disconnected this morning and still am connected and i logged in about 8:20am. (I use a 30 sec chart)
A bar that should have been the deep pink but wasnt (H 1.4350, L 1.4345) closed at 8:49, but the first comment about anything not connection related was 8:49:20 about submitting an order with strategy.
The first bar that did recolor deep pink was more than 5 ticks and closed 8:57:30 and the first bar that was exactly 5 ticks colored Lime and closed 9:04:30.
I dont know why, but my log reads nothing beyond 8:57:22 so i cant see anything.

[simpletrades]

I kept the log open and entered and cancelled a trade just now at 10:47:38 and 10:47:43 and that showed up and luckily the bar that closed 10:48:00 colored Lime, but the log didnt mention it.

[simpletrades]

I still want to know why it didnt work, but i changed the code to read dist/2 and changed the input variable to 9 and now it recolors properly.

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

Hello simpletrades,

Great to hear you found a solution. I would not know why the earlier logic was not working as expected.

The only way to determine why that was not working is to debugg your code. I would suggest using the Print() function to print the values and compare them to the values you were expected.

More information on debugging your code and can be found below:

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