Breakout Breakdown

[goldfly]

I'm trying to create a SIMPLE breakout strategy. I've told it to buy at crossabove, but it buys at equals.

I have numerous examples. One is attached. Is there something I'm missing about this?

I have set calculate on bar close to false

Here's the code:

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{

{
// Condition set 1
if (CrossAbove(Close, Swing(SwingPower).SwingHigh, 1))
{
EnterLongLimit(GetCurrentAsk());
}

// Condition set 2
if (CrossBelow(Close, Swing(SwingPower).SwingLow, 1))
{
EnterShortLimit(GetCurrentBid());
}
}

}

[NinjaTrader_JC]

Hello goldfly,

The Swing indicator can have their plot points recalculated as incoming data is updated, thus making it challenging to use in a strategy via programmatic calls. They are first and foremost mean to be used as visual trading tools

With that said you can still use the indicators for your calculations but would need to understand what price points can be accessed at which time programmatically, since those can be different from the historically plotted ones.

Also using CrossAbove, and CrossBelow will return false if both values are equal. It will true only once the values go above/below one another respectively.

How are you checking the values to see that it is only true when they are equal?

A helpful feature to be able to check and see how your code is being processed is the Print() statement. See the following forum post for more information.
http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...ead.php?t=3418

TraceOrders is another helpful feature that will be able to see the behavior of your orders.
http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...ead.php?t=3627

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