Passing a secondary bars object to a custom indicator

[scottyheist]

Hi there,

I can see from this example that it's pretty easy to pass a secondary bars object to a NT indicator (CCI):

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
    // Checks to ensure all Bars objects contain enough bars before beginning
    if (CurrentBars[0] <= BarsRequired || CurrentBars[1] <= BarsRequired || CurrentBars[2] <= BarsRequired)
        return;
 
    if (BarsInProgress == 0)
    {
        if (CCI(20)[0] > 200 && CCI(BarsArray[1], 20)[0] > 200
          && CCI(BarsArray[2], 20)[0] > 200)
         {
              // Do something
         }
    }
}

However, I'd like to know how to pass a secondary bars object to a custom indicator.

For example, if the condition was:

 if (Opens[0][0] < MyCustomIndicator(Period, StdDevThresh).VSLow[0]
                && Position.MarketPosition != MarketPosition.Long)
            {
                EnterLong(amount, "EnterLongOpen");
            }

How would I pass a secondary bars object to this indicator in the same way that it has been done for the CCI indicator:

CCI(BarsArray[1], 20)[0]

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Scotty, that would be just done in the same manner - any indicator method, also your custom one, will per default offer an overload as well that would allow to pass an IDataSeries in like you have shown for the CCI call. So I would expect that to be working for you -

MyCustomIndicator(BarsArray[1], Period, StdDevThresh).VSLow[0]