Double Instantiation of Indicator

[TODDLINDSTROM]

I wrote my own indicator with a public data series and it generates graphics on the screen (line and dots - no plots)

When I use the indicator in the Initialize method of the strategy - that works fine and I see all of the drawings.

But then when I want to retrieve the data series in the OnBarUpdate() - I can not figure out how to retrieve the data from the indicator added at the beginning.

If I simply call my indicator again in OnBarUpdate() like this:
double myvalue = MyIndicator(a,b,c,d,e,f,g)[0]

Then it seems to me that this is wasting memory because I am in essence creating another instance of the Indicator in memory - and it is having to process the 256 bars backwards.

Is there a best practice on how to limit the # of times an indicator is created?

TODDL

[NinjaTrader_MichaelM]

Hello TODDLINDSTROM,

Thank you for writing in. You can just initialize the indicator into a variable. For example:

	private SMA mySMA;
        protected override void Initialize()
        {
            CalculateOnBarClose = true;
	    Add(mySMA = SMA(14));
        }
        protected override void OnBarUpdate()
        {
	    Print(mySMA[0]);
	    Print(mySMA[1]);
        }

Please let me know if I may be of further assistance.