Pivots R1, R2, ... values

[davidgamo]

Hi

How can I get the Pivots R1, R2, ... values?

I always get 0.

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
Pivots pivots = Pivots(Input, PivotRange.Daily, HLCCalculationMode.DailyBars, 0,0,0,20);
Print(pivots.R1[0]);
}

Regards

[Harry]

You cannot call the pivots with setting HLCCalculationMode.DailyBars. The call is not correctly synchronized by NinjaTrader. You can only call pivots when set to HLCCalculationMode.CalcFromIntradayData.

Otherwise if you need to calculate pivots from daily bars, you can copy the entire indicator to a strategy or indicator instead of calling it.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello davidgamo,

Thank you for your post.

When using HLCCalculationMode.DailyBars it can be expected that a value of 0 is returned when the daily bars have not been loaded yet. Due to the asynchronous nature of this indicator calling daily bars you should only access the pivot values when the indicator has loaded all required Bars objects. To ensure you are accessing accurate values you can use .ContainsValue() as a check.

For example:

// Checks that this is a valid pivot point value
if (Pivots(PivotRange.Daily, HLCCalculationMode.DailyBars, 0, 0, 0, 20).PP.ContainsValue(0))
{
    // Prints the current pivot point value
    double value = Pivots(PivotRange.Daily, HLCCalculationMode.DailyBars, 0, 0, 0, 20).PP[0];
    Print("The current Pivots' pivot value is " + value.ToString());
}

[Harry]

Hi Patrick,

This does not work with the pivots indicator. You cannot call its values from another indicator or strategy, even when the daily bars are loaded. This is a limitation of the asynchronous call. If you find a solution to overcome the problem. please let me know.

Attached is an indicator that accesses the pivots and which shows the problem. If you set "DailyBars" to "true" (default setting) nothing will be displayed. If you set "DailyBars" to false, it will display the pivots, as the indicator can only retrieve the values from the NinjaTrader default pivots indicator, when it does not use daily data.

Hello davidgamo,

Thank you for your post.

When using HLCCalculationMode.DailyBars it can be expected that a value of 0 is returned when the daily bars have not been loaded yet. Due to the asynchronous nature of this indicator calling daily bars you should only access the pivot values when the indicator has loaded all required Bars objects. To ensure you are accessing accurate values you can use .ContainsValue() as a check.

For example:

// Checks that this is a valid pivot point value
if (Pivots(PivotRange.Daily, HLCCalculationMode.DailyBars, 0, 0, 0, 20).PP.ContainsValue(0))
{
    // Prints the current pivot point value
    double value = Pivots(PivotRange.Daily, HLCCalculationMode.DailyBars, 0, 0, 0, 20).PP[0];
    Print("The current Pivots' pivot value is " + value.ToString());
}