Swing indicator

[guillembm]

I'm trying to work with the swing indicator and I want to get the value of it. As I read on the help guide: "A return value of 0 (zero) will be returned if the CurrentBar is less than the "strength" value or a swing pivot has not yet been found"

I'm using this to get the value: Swing(int strength).SwingHigh[int barsAgo]

The problem is that I want to know when a swing happened. So, I expected the value to be zero if the conditions for the swing don't accomplish. But I see that the indicator gets the value of the last swing and this value is kept till a new swing happens. I'm Wrong?

Perhaps the only way to know when a new swing happens is to check if the value changes. That's right?

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello guillembm,
Thanks for writing in and I am happy to assist you.

To know when the swing happened please use the snippet

Swing(int strength).SwingHighBar(int barsAgo, int instance, int lookBackPeriod)

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?swing.htm

For example to know the at what bar the last swing happened, with a lookback of 50, then please use the below code.

int barsAgo = Swing(5).SwingHighBar(0,1,50);
//print the high value of the bar
Print(High[barsAgo]);

Please let me know if I can assist you any further.