Communicating between different time frame charts

[AlphaGammeTheta]

Hello,

I want to know if its possible( and how to? ) to make charts communicate between themselves. This form part of the strategy to analyse different time frames and to take a buying or selling signal based on some confirmation on higher time frames. For example, trading on a 5 minutes time frame, I want to know if it possible to integrate in my code some kind of communication channel with the 15 minutes and 30 minutes chart, on which there will be some analysis( major trend or intermediate trend) will be done in order to engage the market on the 5 minutes chart.

Do you know how we can do that with the NT scripting?

Thank you very much

AGT.

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello AlphaGammeTheta,

It is possible to load data series with different time values into a strategy.

The theory is not that you are making multiple charts communicate between each other but rather you are adding additional chart data into the same chart.

From inside a strategy you can do this by using the Add() method.

Here are some examples of this.

This is simple usage and will pull the 5 minute data and 10 minute data of the current chart the strategy is applied to.

Add(PeriodType.Minute, 5);
Add(PeriodType.Minute, 10);

You can get more advanced with it if you want to, this would add a 100 tick ES chart to the current chart

Add("ES 06-14", PeriodType.Tick, 100);

To access the data you have retrieved, you use almost the same as you would normally to get your data
For the first set of data you would use to get the double value of the current bars close

Close[0]

To get the second data series close you would use:

Closes[1][0]

Here is a reference on how to use these time frames

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?add3.htm

Here is a link to a video on using hidden data series just for reference if you would like to do this without using a strategy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_6BN5SIiig&list=PL82A14C398CA140D7&index=30

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