Struggling with a simple one alert strategy !

[EURLSD]

Hi,

I'm struggling with a really simple alert strategy.
It's based on Ichimoku indicator found here.
I used condition builder to alert me when chikou crosses kijun. As Chikou is drawn 26 bar ago in the chart, I can't get the alert to work good, My strategy alerts me at wrong places. I tried to change 'bars ago' and 'lookback' on either parameters with the same wrong result.
Please help me





/// </summary>
protected override void Initialize()
{

CalculateOnBarClose = true;
}

/// <summary>
/// Called on each bar update event (incoming tick)
/// </summary>
protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
// Condition set 1
if (CrossAbove(IchimokuCloud(9, 26, 52).ChikouSpan, IchimokuCloud(9, 26, 52).KijunSen, 1))
{
Alert("MyAlert0", Priority.High, "Chikou crosses Kijun", "", 10, Color.White, Color.Black);
}

}

#region Properties
#endregion
}
}

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello EURLSD,

Thanks for your post.

You will not be able to use the wizard to get you all the way there but you can uses it to generate most of the code.

Generally what you want to do is to compare the current value of the ChikouSpan[0] to the KijunSen[26] of 26 bars ago and also check the previous value of each as you won't be able to use the crossabove/below.

Please see the attached screenshot of the conditions builder. Basically with the two statements we are testing to see if ChikouSpan has crossed above KijunSen. The action then draws a dot on KijunSen[26] bars ago.

After you have created the conditions (and your actions) for both cross above and crossbelow in the wizard, you will need to unlock the code and after OnBarUpdate, add the following:

if (CurrentBar < 27 ) return; // Make sure we have enough bars before looking back 26

If you do not add the above code the strategy will error out. NOTE: Added code snippet to show both sides, with dots, with alerts and with CurrentBarCheck.

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

[EURLSD]

Thank you Paul.Your trick works great !
Now, I would like to get the result of this crossing so I could use it with the Market Analyser. Like 1 if crossed, 0 if not. Can you help me to implement this please ?

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Convert Strategy to indicator and add output to Market Analyzer

Hello EURLSD,

Thanks for your reply and I am glad that helped you.

Regrettably strategies cannot input to the Market Analyzer.

To accomplish your goal would require converting your strategy to an indicator then adding modifications to provide an output for the Market Analyzer. The indicator would then be added as a column in the Market Analyzer.

While we do not provide coding services, in the interest of educational understanding, I have converted the strategy to an indicator and modified it to add the output "ichySignal" where +1 = cross up and -1 = cross down and 0 = no signal.

Please download and import the indicator EURLSDichyDots. You can then apply the indicator to the Market analyzer. Make sure for the "Plot" that you select IchySignals for the +1, 0, -1.

If you compare the strategy code to the indicator code you will see much of the code is the same but have added the DataSeries ichySignal and added statements to output those signals. For your understanding what I did was to create a new indicator with the indicator wizard with no plots or lines or inputs which created a basic indicator code shell, I then copied over all of the code between the " { } " in the onbarupdate section from the strategy and placed it in the same onbarupdate section in the new indicator, then added the Dataseries stuff.

If you want or need other things with the indicator then that will be on you to modify/provide.

[EURLSD]

Thank you so much Paul !
I'm now able to create my own indicators