Issue with Strategy Analyzer

[milemke08]

While trying to test my first strategy with the Strategy Analyzer, I discovered that the strategy doesn't kick in until 20 bars have passed, is this normal? I discovered this by putting Print(Close[0]); in the OnBarUpdate() function and looked at the output box. The first value that it printed out was the value of the bar 20 bars from the start of the graph.

[NinjaTrader_AdamP]

milemke,

This would be the BarsRequired setting. You can set it to whatever you want but it defaults to 20.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?barsrequired2.htm

[milemke08]

Adam P., you and I are becoming a team it seems here. By a team, I mean you are helping me on every issue I have. Thanks man.

[NinjaTrader_AdamP]

milemike,

Always happy to help where we can. Please feel free to contact us any time.

[milemke08]

Didn't take long, but I have another question:

I want to set the bars required for my strategy in the Initialize() so I don't have to do it every time when I go to run it, but it won't take this.BarsRequired(5);. I looked through the API, but I couldn't find how to call the function

[NinjaTrader_AdamP]

milemike,

Its just :

BarsRequired = 10;

Its a integer value so you just assign some integer to it.

In your code you can check for if ( CurrentBar < BarsRequired) return; for example.

The main thing here is that you want to watch out for array index out of bounds issues.