Including Indicator's UserDefinedMethods in Strategies

[stevenev1]

Right now, I have to replicate the functions in my indicator UserDefinedMethods into Strategy UserDefinedMethods. Is there a way to directly reference Indicator's UserDefinedMethods from strategies? Tnx.

NT7

[NinjaTrader_AlanP]

Hello stevenev1,

Thank you for your note.

This would not be supported in NT7 however this would be very easy in NT8 using an addon. Below would be an example of how you could accomplish this in NT8,

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/forum/ninjatrader-7/general-development/82893-how-to-make-two-charts-share-variable-values?postcount=3

Please let us know if you need further assistance.

[bltdavid]

I have to replicate the functions <in one file to another file> ...

WinMerge is your friend.

[bltdavid]

It depends how well you know C# programming.

Study bin/Custom/Strategy/@Strategy.cs very carefully.
(Hint: Can you understand the significance of the "LeadIndicator" property?)

Try adding this code to your strategy file,

  private Indicator.Indicator myfuncs = null;

  protected override void OnStartUp()
  {
    myfuncs = (Indicator.Indicator)LeadIndicator;
    myfuncs.HelloWorld();
  }

Then add this "HelloWorld" code to your bin/Custom/Indicator/UserDefinedMethods.cs file,

 public void HelloWorld()
 {
   Print("Hello World");
 }

Open an OutputWindow and run your strategy.

Enjoy!