Strategy/Indicator distinction in NT8

[TurtleBeach]

Since the "Developing Strategies" topic under Educational Resources is not a working link, I cannot find a clear explanation of the difference between a strategy and an indicator in the context of NinjaScript development (NT8 Help - which is what I need)

Specifically, the order methods only appear under "Strategy" in the NinjaScript help, but since they are C# methods can they also be accessed from an Indicator?

It seems inefficient to have to replicate code that needs to execute in OnBarUpdate in two places - something called a "strategy" and something called an "indicator".

Do I really have to attach both to a chart to see visual components of an indicator as well as to programmatically take actions?

Thanks,
Jack

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello TurtleBeach,

Thanks for your post.

In general, a very simplified answer is that an indicator indicates and a strategy is for controlling order executions. In general, no you would not be able to access strategy methods/properties from an indicator and yes you can access indicator methods from strategies.

Strategies do not need a chart to run on. They can be run from the chart or directly from the strategies tab of the control center. Here are a couple of helpguide links:
http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...t_strategy.htm
http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...t_strateg2.htm

You can add indicators into a strategy to use internally to the strategy or to simply load into the chart for display purposes:
http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...tindicator.htm

While this is not meant to replace the developing educational links, you may find some value in example strategy/indicators in our reference section here: http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum...splay.php?f=30