SMA Value

[fury661]

First time poster, trying to develop my first NinjaScript.

I wanted to use an SMA that was based upon 5 bar LOW value... yet there is no place in the Wizard's SMA value to determine whether it's based on Hi Lo Open or Close. Am I missing something?

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Hi fury661,

Welcome to the NinjaTrader Support Forums.

When you select the SMA indicator from the list, you should have a property called Input Series. Select that and you can change it to any of the Price category items for OHLC.

[fury661]

Down close entry conditional

Thank you, I'm getting the hang of it. I read the entire Strategy part of the help file last night, when I was very tired. I must have forgotten that part. I have a much more difficult question this time.

I want to enter a long position when I have three consecutive closes above an SMA. However, I don't want to enter on the close of the 3rd bar necessarily... I want to enter only if that 3rd bar is a DOWN close (relative to its open). If that bar is not a down close, then I want to delay entry until the 4th bar, or 5th, etc.

Can you point me in the right direction as to how to express that in the Wizard?

[fury661]

Thanks for your help. A little background: I have been manually trading a FOREX system I created. It is profitable, and I want to auto-trade it 24 hours per day. Unfortunately, I don't know much about the programming.

So, here is two more questions... I've been reading the forums for an hour, and I think that what I'm wanting to do isn't possible on the Wizard, but I'm going to double check:

1. I want to create a look back period, that's something along the lines of:

"If the low is higher than the previous twelve highs then enter"

I could easily code this in the Wizard by creating 12 conditionals like
Low[0] > High [1]
Low[0] > High [2]
and so on...

But, here's the catch. I want to run this through the optimizer, thus I need to make the 12 number changeable by making it a user defined variable. I have not been able to find a place to define a look back period in the Conditional Builder, except on the Crossabove or Crossbelow function.

This seems like such an obvious condition to allow in the wizard, but I cannot find a way to express it. Is this not possible?

2. If I can't do it in the Wizard, is it possible to do in the NinjaScript coding language? Because if it is, I will have to learn it.

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

But, here's the catch. I want to run this through the optimizer, thus I need to make the 12 number changeable by making it a user defined variable. I have not been able to find a place to define a look back period in the Conditional Builder, except on the Crossabove or Crossbelow function.

This seems like such an obvious condition to allow in the wizard, but I cannot find a way to express it. Is this not possible?

2. If I can't do it in the Wizard, is it possible to do in the NinjaScript coding language? Because if it is, I will have to learn it.

fury, this is definitely possible with NinjaScript.

[fury661]

Is it possible in the Strategy Wizard? If so, could you point me in the right direction..... specifically, is this supported in NT7 or NT6 with a lookback period? Is the MAX and MIN function a simple workaround for this?

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

I don't think is possible to create in the wizard, it should be straightforward though in custom coding with the CountIf method - http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/H...6/CountIf.html