using the DrawText() function from inside a strategy script

[clksoft]

I want to use DrawText() to print information on the chart panel when I apply the strategy to the chart. However, none of the information I am trying to print appears on the chart panel.


BTW, even though I am doing this inside a strategy, my strategy is in fact a "multiple timeframe indicator". I made it a strategy because I can't have multiple time frames in the same indicator script.

What I am trying to do for a N-timeframe strategy in my on bar update method is:



int i0 = BarsInProgress;
if(i0 > 0) {

calculate indicatorvalue[i0] where indicatorvalue is an N-size array containing the indicator value on each of the time frames processed by my strategy

return;
}
else { use DrawText() to print the indicator value in each timeframe }




Can someone please help?

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

clksoft,

Please check your Control Center logs for any errors. Please post your exact line of code for DrawText() being used. Thank you.

[clksoft]

Thanks. I see that my strategy failed to initialize. I was trying to add bar arrays with periods 2x, 4x, 8x and 16x that of the chart to which I apply the strategy with the following in my initialize:

Add(BarsArray[0].Period.Id, 2*BarsArray[0].Period.Value);
Add(BarsArray[0].Period.Id, 4*BarsArray[0].Period.Value);
Add(BarsArray[0].Period.Id, 8*BarsArray[0].Period.Value);
Add(BarsArray[0].Period.Id, 16*BarsArray[0].Period.Value);

That caused the following to appear in the log:

1/10/2010 4:54:11 PM|3|128|Failed to call method 'Initialize' for strategy 'clk0': 'BarsArray' property can not be accessed from within 'Initialize' method

Is there another way to do what I am trying to do without knowing in advance what interval BarsArray[0].Period.Value will be when I apply the strategy to a chart?

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

You cannot use BarsArray[] in Initialize(). The bars objects do not exist yet. You have to type out what you want exactly.

[clksoft]

Thanks. It's all working the way I want it now. Too bad I have to decide in advance what my multiple timeframes will be though!