Referencing BarsArray

[wallabee13]

I am having trouble calling on a second instrument for entry criteria. I know this is a noob problem, but can somebody help with this formula?

if (CrossAbove(ROC(11), -6, 1)
                && Close[0] > 10
                && Close[0] >= SMA(250)[0]
                && SMA(Volume, 20)[0] >= 200000
                && StochasticMomentumIndex(4, 4, 3, 1).SMI[0] < -36)
                && (Closes[1][0] != (LowestBar(Close[1],65))
                || TRIX(Close, 15, 1)[1][0] == LowestBar(TRIX(15, 1)[1], 65))
            {
                EnterLong(DefaultQuantity, "Strata#1");
            }

I.E. for AAPL and ^COMP
if A,B,C,D are true for AAPL and E is true for ^COMP then enter long.

I do have Add("^COMP", PeriodType.Day,1); under initialize

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

Hello Wallabee13,

Thank you for your post.

I can see from your logic that you are LowestBar() which returns the Index bar value and not the price.
Is this what you wanted?

Closes[1][0] != (LowestBar(Close[1],65)

This is comparing a double value against an int value

[wallabee13]

I'm not quite sure whether you are asking our telling Cal. What I want is "if close now not equal to the lowest value for the last 65 bars."

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

Wallabe,

You are testing a decimal values against a whole number with Close != Lowestbar();
Typically you would want to test the same value types here. You would want to use MIN() instead as this returns a double value or the price of that bar.
http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...inimum_min.htm

Additionally, you will want to use Closes[1] for the DataSeries properties as this returns a data series and not a double value that Close[1] does.

Let me know if I can be of further assistance.

[wallabee13]

Min issues

Ok Cal, I do understand the issue btwn lowest bar and min and have changed my coding. From my 1st post, I have been using Closes since the beginning. The issue I am running into now is trying to reference the second instrument. Is there a way to utilize min()[1][0]??

I have tried the above, min()[1][0] which I understand may not be able to be referenced, and also tried a if (BarsInProgress == 1). As the first post mentions, is there some way I can test "Closes[1][0] != Min(Low,65)[1][0]"?

I also tried

if (BarsInProgress == 1) {
if (Close[0] != Min(Low,65)[0])
{
print ("etc.");
}}

Simply, neither of those get triggered.

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

Hello Wallabee13,

Closes[1][0] != MIN(Lows[1], 65)[0]

[wallabee13]

Thanks Cal, that helped and with everything else. I have many more issues on the plate for my scripts but I thank you for solving this one.