Quick Check on CurrentBar

[trader_rick]

Hello,

The NT documentation states that CurrentBar starts at index value zero. On running my strategy through the VS debugger however, I get the value to be 1. (I am running OnBarUpdate on each tick.) Any explanations?

thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Hi trader_rick, checked mine briefly and get the correct value 0 for the very first bar on the chart - are you sure you checked the correct bar in your debugger?

[trader_rick]

Hi Bertrand,

Well, it's the first line of code in OnBarUpdate. To double check, I added

Print( CurrentBar.ToString( ) )

within OnBarUpdate and in the output window counting starts at 1. I'm using NT 6.5.1000.8 and I'm sending tick data through the .NET ATI using a tick server that I built.

By the way, wow! Quick response. Very impressive.

thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Thanks - what's your min bars required setting when starting the strategy? Is this also set to 0?

[trader_rick]

I have

BarsRequired = 1;

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

trader_rick,

That is why you start out at 1. For a strategy, it does not process any OnBarUpdate() events until the minimum bars required parameter is met. This means 1 in your case. The first OnBarUpdate() event will be on bar 1.

[trader_rick]

Doh!

Thanks josh. That makes sense.

(I didn't get much sleep last night - anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.)