Volume over time?

[alabell]

I am a basic Csharp programmer, I am much better at understanding code than writing it, but i hve made strides in creating my own product.

I think Ninjatrader will eventually be perfect for me but atm, i have 2 questions;

1. I programmed the following for the:

minimum of a stock's SMA (10dayvolume) and the SMA of its(50dayvolume). the code is as follows:

Add(PeriodType.Day, 1);
double avgVolume = Math.Min ((SMA(Volumes[1],10)[0]) , (SMA(Volumes[1],50)[0]));

and I cant get it to print the volume number.


Ive been trading for 12 years, and I've decided for the sake of saving msyelf the many heart attackes per year, I am going to use full automation for my risk, profit and strategy parameters. This is one that I will be using.

I'm sure im doing missing something that is right in front of my nose, but any questions/answers or tips that would lead me to some progress would be awesome....

Thanks in adavnce,

Andrew

[NinjaTrader_Brett]

Hello,

Thanks for your note and welcome to the support forum!

double avgVolume = Math.Min ((SMA(Volumes[1],10)[0]) , (SMA(Volumes[1],50)[0]));

This would need to be called in OnBarUpdate(). Also can you post a bit more code your doing to print as well.

I look forward to assisting you further.

[alabell]

absolutely here is the code, and thanks for the quick response:

{

CalculateOnBarClose = true;

}


protectedoverridevoid OnBarUpdate()


{

Add(PeriodType.Day, 1);
double avgVolume = Math.Min ((SMA(Volumes[1],10)[0]) , (SMA(Volumes[1],50)[0]));


}


{

Print ("Avg volume:" + avgVolume);

}


Apologies if i left out something critical, please advise and many thanks.

[NinjaTrader_Brett]

Thanks for posting.

Add(PeriodType.Day, 1);


This is in the wrong spot. needs to be in Initialize() instead of OnBarUpdate().

If in OnBarUpdate() it will add the bars series each time you get a tick which I'm surprised you did not run into major issues doing that. Move this up to Initialize and then let me know if it still is not working.

[alabell]

Still getting numerous errors; any help appareciated but a good many f them are asking me to place a } or ) where there already is one.

[alabell]

hoping for a little advice so i can work this out over the weekend....i am using a strategy as opposed to an indicator and not doing any coding through the wizard, as there really doesnt seem to be any needed. Thanks for any help.

Andrew

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

alabell, are there any errors in the log (right-most tab of Control Center)? What are the other errors you are receiving?