use of customized indicators?

[cashmoney]

Hey,

I am pretty new to ninjatrader and therefore, I'd appreciate if you helped me a bit. I just downloaded new indicators from this forum and would like to use them. How can I implement them in a new strategy? Is there a list to see how they are actually called, such as for instance periods are called Period in the set up.

thanks

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

cashmoney, there are a few ways to use new indicators. First of all, it is necessary to import the indicator. After that is done, you can reference the new indicators in your strategies in one of two ways.

The first way would be to use the Strategy Wizard, where you can select specific conditions (including conditions from your new indicators) and take actions when the conditions are true. Your new indicator will appear in the indicator list of the Strategy Wizard.

The second method would be to reference the indicator in code. Say you downloaded a new version of the SMA indicator, called ZZSMA. In the Initialize() section of your strategy, you can call the Add() method to add in your new indicator: Add(ZZSMA(...[parameters here]));.

It is also possible to get the current value of some indicator without adding it:

OnBarUpdate()
{
   currentZZSMA = ZZSMA(...)[0];
}