Adding a daily period type to a minutes period type strategy code

[Quikito]

I know this problem has been treated millions of times but I really can't figure out and I apologize.

I would add a daily period type indicator to my minutes based strategy but, simply adding the row code in the initialization, the strategy doesn't do trades anymore. Why?!

What follows is the code:


{
/// <summary>
/// Enter the description of your strategy here
/// </summary>
[Description("Enter the description of your strategy here")]
public class BuyHold : Strategy
{
#region Variables
// Wizard generated variables
private int myInput0 = 1; // Default setting for MyInput0
// User defined variables (add any user defined variables below)
#endregion

/// <summary>
/// This method is used to configure the strategy and is called once before any strategy method is called.
/// </summary>
protected override void Initialize()
{
CalculateOnBarClose = true;
Add(PeriodType.Day, 247);
}

/// <summary>
/// Called on each bar update event (incoming tick)
/// </summary>
protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
if (ToTime(Time[0]) == ToTime(10, 0, 0))
EnterLong(1, "");
}

#region Properties
[Description("")]
[GridCategory("Parameters")]
public int MyInput0
{
get { return myInput0; }
set { myInput0 = Math.Max(1, value); }
}
#endregion
}
}

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello Quikito,

Thanks for your post.

It looks like you are specifying to add a daily bar of 247 daily bars. Please try Add(PeriodType.Day, 1);

The Add() will bring in the number of daily bars according to the charts data series "Days to load" setting. If your chart's data series has 5 days to load then when the script is run it will add 5 daily bars.

When you apply a strategy, one of the parameters is the "Min number of bars required" which is set to 20, you may need to lower this value as otherwise your strategy would need 20 daily bars loaded before placing a trade.

We highly recommend reviewing the help guide section on Multi time frame and Instrument scripts as there are a number of considerations for correctly coding in this environment. For your convienicne here is a direct link to that section: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...nstruments.htm

[Quikito]

Great! The problem was the min number of bars required as you said. Now I fixed it and it works great!
Thank you!