Suggestions on strategy architecture. Flags

[raz0rback]

Hello guys, and in particular Ray and Josh.

Love the product! Great work.

I am designing a strategy that looks at several indicators. The strategy looks for certain characteristics in each indicator.

I plan to write some code that will set a variable each time that the certain condition relevant to each indicator is met.

However, often these flags dont coincide on the same bar. So what I wanted to do was design a function that will place the flags into a dataseries, and then have a function that will look at if all the conditions are met within X amount of bars.

For example some rough pseudocode:

WHILE Trend is Up
IF indicator1 = somecondition THEN set flag indicator1flag=1 into a
dataseries
IF indicator2 = othercondition THEN set flag idicator2flag=1 into a
dataseries

IF indicator1flag + indicator2flag in LAST X AMOUNT OF BARS = 2 then enter a long position.

.....
So essentially I want to have an array of values for each indicator:
Indicator1: 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Indicator2: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0

Then the order entry function will check all arrays and be true when the value is set within X amount of bars for all indicators.

I hope you follow my concept. Would really appreciate if one of the forum gurus could suggest a nice structure for such a design.

By the way I have also found using a while loop causes NT to crash every time. Is there a special syntax that I am missing or does anyone know what might be causing it?

Cheers,

Stephen

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

If you could post up your exact snippet for the while loop scenario we can investigate it.

In regards to what you want to try and do you should have no problem doing it with the DataSeries object. To check your DataSeries object to see if it was true within x amount of bars you can either use a loop or maybe even use the MRO() method.

[raz0rback]

Thanks for the tip on the MRO method.

I have successfully built the strategy using the dataseries objects and the MRO method.

The while loop issue has been overcome by using a different method.

Thanks again for the great support guys. Very good customer service.