Where to start if I want to create a strategy on a trading set-up?

[koganam]

Please suggest a way to stop the email alerts if there's a way. They're over-flooding my mailbox lol .. oh well ..

You need to use a boolean flag to tell the script to send email only when a trade is triggered.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Great addition, Koganam. Once you solve the immediate problem of your script sending emails, should consider adding some control there to only submit once.

[belecona]

Hi Ryan and Koganam

I stopped running the script for an hour now. Continue getting hundreds of email alerts every 5-10 minutes. Guess it may take the system some hours to dry up the alerts ...

Too scary to add a SendMail alert when I don't know how to program it properly. I will do more research on boolean flag after overcoming the alert dilemma. Thank you.

[koganam]

Hi Ryan and Koganam

I stopped running the script for an hour now. Continue getting hundreds of email alerts every 5-10 minutes. Guess it may take the system some hours to dry up the alerts ...

Too scary to add a SendMail alert when I don't know how to program it properly. I will do more research on boolean flag after overcoming the alert dilemma. Thank you.

I just hope that you did not have COBC = false in that script, or you may have well sent in excess of 1 million emails.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

OK, should stop eventually if the script is no longer running. Make sure there are no hidden workspaces loaded using File > Workspace, or that it it is not applied to a market analyzer column.

[belecona]

Yes, the indicator with COBC@false ooooooooooooooooooooo

[jkpdon]

Is this Strategy will be shared to public??

[belecona]

Sorry it's not a strategy. It's a signal indicator that I experimented with a SendMail alert. With the looping code, it generated 500,000+ mail alerts and finally stopped after 4 hours - gosh!

Since it's a nice-to-have feature, I am not going to play with the indicator anymore. Do not have a big heart to accommodate another half a million or millions of alerts ..

[koganam]

Sorry it's not a strategy. It's a signal indicator that I experimented with a SendMail alert. With the looping code, it generated 500,000+ mail alerts and finally stopped after 4 hours - gosh!

Since it's a nice-to-have feature, I am not going to play with the indicator anymore. Do not have a big heart to accommodate another half a million or millions of alerts ..

The safe way to code anything that will generate output other than to the chart screen, is to replace the generating function with another that Print()s to the Output window or throws an alert. That way, if something goes wrong, the worst that can happen is that your local computer get overwhelmed.

Once you have that working correctly then you replace your output generator, whatever it may be, with the SendMail function, which will then behave exactly as your safe test function did, in terms of how much output it will generate.

[belecona]

Hi Koganam

Thanks for your tips.

I really don't know what happened. My Up/Down Arrows and audio alerts using the same conditions have been working fine for weeks. Yet when I just added the SendMail code right beneath one of them, it's getting wild. Let me calm down a little (getting over the unexpected chaos last week) and may give it a second look

[koganam]

Hi Koganam

Thanks for your tips.

I really don't know what happened. My Up/Down Arrows and audio alerts using the same conditions have been working fine for weeks. Yet when I just added the SendMail code right beneath one of them, it's getting wild. Let me calm down a little (getting over the unexpected chaos last week) and may give it a second look

If a draw object draws over itself, you will not notice that difference.
Alert() has a bulit-in reset that ensures that it does not fire on every tick, but only after the reset time. Have a reset longer than the candle time, and in effect, you have an Alert() that can trigger only once, so everything looks and sounds fine, hiding the fact that because COBC = false, you may be generating many things, that just visually and audibly do not force notice.

You have to make a programmatic arrangement to ensure that the email is sent only once per occurrence.

[belecona]

Hi Ryan

Believe your day has been going well. I need to do testing on some breakout systems. Since I have not created any indicators/strategies based on Minute charts, I would appreciate your kind assistance in directing me to find some NinjaTrader samples that may cover the following:

1. Identify High/Low of a specified timeline. For example, draw 2 horizontal lines on the chart to highlight the High/Low for 9:30-9:45 am EST.

2. Instead of changing the Start/End time within the indicator's script, how can I have them on the indicator's parameters so that I can change them easily? If it's too complicated, I'm happy to accomplish Item 1 above and manually change the time.

3. Once I have the High/Low (per Item 1), how can I reference them for a pair of Buy/Sell orders waiting to be filled when price breaks High/Low in a strategy?

Thank you for your guidance. Have a nice afternoon.

Beth

[NinjaTrader_Lance]

Hello,

Hi Ryan
1. Identify High/Low of a specified timeline. For example, draw 2 horizontal lines on the chart to highlight the High/Low for 9:30-9:45 am EST.

While I'm not familiar with any ready made indicators you could take a look at the "CurrentDayOHL" indicator that comes with Ninja trader and apply a time filter to a custom version of it.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=3226

2. Instead of changing the Start/End time within the indicator's script, how can I have them on the indicator's parameters so that I can change them easily? If it's too complicated, I'm happy to accomplish Item 1 above and manually change the time.

Along with the above you could use a time filter in the script and then define a user input so that you can change the times used.

You would put something like the following in the properties section of the script to add a user input:

        [Description("Starting time")]
        [GridCategory("Parameters")]
        public int MyStartTime
        {
            get { return myStartTime; }
            set { myStartTime= Math.Max(1, value); }
        }

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...ries_class.htm

3. Once I have the High/Low (per Item 1), how can I reference them for a pair of Buy/Sell orders waiting to be filled when price breaks High/Low in a strategy?

Similarly to how you would use CurrentDayOHL() except with your custom indicator's name (see this link for examples)

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?current_day_ohl.htm

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

[belecona]

Thanks Lance for your prompt response. I will go through the suggested samples. Will you kindly provide me with the updated link where I can find NinjaTrader sample indicators/strategies? Thank you.

Have a nice afternoon.

Beth

[NinjaTrader_Lance]

Hello,

Yes, you can find reference samples here: http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...ead.php?t=3220

You can find Tips here: http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...ead.php?t=3229

You can find file sharing here: http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...splay.php?f=37

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