Difficulty in Pre-loading Multiple Timeframes

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Currently, I am able to add a second time frame to a strategy as follows:

protectedoverridevoid Initialize()
{


if(biasTimeFrames == TimeFrames.Ten_Min)
{ Add(PeriodType.Minute, 10); }
}


I would like to have the ability to select the TimeFrame based on the Chart timeframe ( i.e. 5 min or 10 bar chart ), Not the input parameter that I am using - biasTimeFrames.

The following examnple is what I would like to accomplish ...
protectedoverridevoid Initialize()
{

switch (Bars.Period.Value)
{
case (005): Add(PeriodType.Minute, 10); break;
case (010): Add(PeriodType.Minute, 60); break;
}

}

Any suggestions on how best to approach this problem?
Thanks.
Larry.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Larry,

Unfortunately this is not supported. You don't have access to the bars series in Initialize().

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Josh,
Thanks for the quick response. Your response clarified what I figured was happening. Is there any other means to add a second timeframe outside of the Initialize() routine of the strategy.

Another error that I have/will encounter ... If I attempt to load several timeframes and one of them happens to be the same timeframe as that of the loaded chart ... we errror out again. Is there any way to capture or handle that error.

Regards,
Larry.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Unfortunately not. Adding bar series is not done dynamically. If you are worried about having a dupe series with the primary, you could just ignore the primary altogther in your code and add all the series you need as secondaries and program against those instead. Drawback would be not having any usable charts for the strategy.