Four Hour SMA Indicator

[arilano]

Hi Ninjas,

I am trying to create a simple indicator which allows you to overlay the 4Hr or any other time frame moving average over your primary Bars on a chart.

I have tried doing it in the strategy but I could not create a new Plot and I also tried creating an indicator to calculate this but I can not add 240 minute bars for the close value.

Is there anyway to do this? Can I plot directly from the strategy?

I also tried to Add(SMA(BarsArray[5],period) in initiailize() and OnStartup(), where this array is 240 min, where should this go?

[arilano]

never mind, I realised that I could simply use a 224 period SMA as this is 16*14.

Duh!

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

arilano, that would be an approximation yes.

The strategy could not plot directly, however you could Add() for example a MultiSeries indicator that would calculate your higher timeframes SMA value then and provide the plot.

The series would be added in the indicators Initialize() method and then you could point the BarsArray[1] in your SMA calculations.

https://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/add3.htm

https://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/barsarray.htm