Counting Renko Bars in a session.

[GKonheiser]

What is best way to count Renko bars in a session or multiple sessions?

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

Hello GKonheiser,

Thank you for your post.

You will want to use something like this to get your session bars -
if(Bars.FirstBarOfSession)
int startBar = CurrentBar;

Print((CurrentBar - startBar));

There is also Bars.BarsSinceSession available as well.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...ncesession.htm

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...rofsession.htm

[GKonheiser]

is there no way of asking for the number of Renko bars in the last x sessions?

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

GKonheiser,

You would want to use the Bars.FirstBarOfSession example that I provide and build your logic around that to track the different sessions and update your variables accordingly.

[arbuthnot]

GKonheiser,

You would want to use the Bars.FirstBarOfSession example that I provide and build your logic around that to track the different sessions and update your variables accordingly.

I’ve been very interested in this thread and thanks for your explanation, Cal.

I’ve used ‘Bars.FirstBarOfSession’ quite a bit in my own coding, but there’s one thing I still don’t know how to do: and that is how to reference previous sessions (as per post #3) or just the previous session, etc.

Could you please be so kind as to give a brief indication of what methods and/or code are used to achieve this.

Thanks very much in advance.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello arbuthnot,

Thank you for your post.

You would need to manually track the count of bars in each in session. In the following example I use a list to store the value.

#region Using declarations
using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Drawing2D;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
[B]using System.Collections;[/B]
using NinjaTrader.Cbi;
using NinjaTrader.Data;
using NinjaTrader.Gui.Chart;
#endregion

namespace NinjaTrader.Indicator
{
    public class MyTestIndicator1 : Indicator
    {
        #region Variables
        private ArrayList sesBarCount = new ArrayList();
		private int prevCount = 0;
        #endregion
		
        protected override void Initialize()
        {
            
        }
		
        protected override void OnBarUpdate()
        {
			if(Bars.FirstBarOfSession)
			{
				Print(prevCount);
				sesBarCount.Add(CurrentBar - prevCount);
				Print(Convert.ToInt32(sesBarCount[sesBarCount.Count -1]));
				prevCount = CurrentBar;
			}
        }
        #region Properties
        
        #endregion
    }

[arbuthnot]

Thanks very much, Patrick. I would have had no idea how to do that.

I've also learnt something about how to use lists, which has always been a bit of a mystery.

Much obliged.