How to use indicator in Strategy

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

Steve R,

When you set the Entries Per Direction it will only place that many trades in the direction that you want to go in, Long or Short.

Below is a link on the EntriesPerDirection from our help guide.
http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...rdirection.htm

[koganam]

Where? Where is 'here'?

I figured the question was simple. "Where"?

Let's get an example going on because I am still not seeing the answer I'm looking for.

1 - I've got an indicator already.
2 - I have 3 user input variables for the indicator. 2 floats and an int. I can't hard-code them because they're vastly different depending on time-frame and security.

3 - When I "Call" the indicator in my Strategy, at what point will the strategy (or indicator) be asking me for those numbers so the Indicator and thusly Strategy will work?

I realize that once the Strategy has the indicator's values etc how it'll work, but I am unclear as to how the indicator will be obtaining from me, the values I want to use for the Indicator and thusly the strategy.

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Part # 2:

Sledge used this code:



From here that looks to me like I use the Strategy to ask for the variables IT has set up, and then IT sends the variables (parameters) TO the indicator to use..

I have no idea if that's how it works.....but if it does, then the next questions would be, in which order is my Indicator getting those parameters and for which if its variables.

Again this whole "Part 2" may be moot because it's not how it works at all?, but I figured this wasn't already confusing enough for such a simple question, that I'd just go ahead and add to the pile :-)

You have it correct in terms of how to create the inputs for the Strategy, and pass them to the Indicator.. You can use Intellisense to help you know the order in which your parameters must be passed to the indicator, or you can examine the calling signature in the indicator (the part where NinjaTrader warns you not to touch the code).

[Steve R]

You have it correct in terms of how to create the inputs for the Strategy, and pass them to the Indicator.. You can use Intellisense to help you know the order in which your parameters must be passed to the indicator, or you can examine the calling signature in the indicator (the part where NinjaTrader warns you not to touch the code).

A thousand thank you's :-)

Ah "Intellisense" - that's what I called the message box thing, lol.

Anyway, yeah. I seem to have a handle on this stuff now and it certainly has opened up a whole pile of things that I can now accomplish. Easier than I had thought, too.