Help! How to call the current price value

[Papercut110]

Hello, please tell me how I can call the current price value and compare it for example with the opening price?

[NinjaTrader_AlanP]

Hello Papercut110,

Thank you for your note.

Could you please clarify in more detail what you're looking to do so I can better direct you? If you are looking just to reference the values you could use the Market Analyzer to display them under Control Center>New>Market Analyzer. Or you could use the Strategy Wizard to build a condition/strategy under the Control Center>Tools>New NinjaScript>Strategy.

See Market Analyzer Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQSp9NODAEk&index=21&list=PL4D56536A44DD7105

For the Strategy Wizard:

In Strategy Wizard, after pressing next you would want to name the strategy and set CalculateOnBarClose to False, so that Close[0] would equal the last price. Click next next, then under Conditions and Actions, "When the following conditions are true"">Add.

This is where you could compare the Close (Current price) against the Open using the various operators in the middle.

See Strategy Wizard Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmBiNYsf1e8&list=PL4D56536A44DD7105&index=10

I look forward to you're reply.

[Papercut110]

NinjaTrader_AlanP, did I understand you correctly, if I use CalculateOnBarClose = False then "Close[0]" will use the current price, but not the one which closed bar?? I'm sorry, my language is lame

[NinjaTrader_AlanP]

Hello Papercut110,

If you set CalculateOnBarClose=False, your conditions are going to be evaluated with each incoming tick and Close[0] is going to represent the current price until the bar closes.

See CalculateOnBarClose section of our Helpguide:

http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/?calculateonbarclose.htm

Please let us know if you need further assistance.

[Papercut110]

NinjaTrader_AlanP, many thanks, helped

[fisbo]

What about Calculate.OnBarClose

How would I access the current price of the instrument if the strategy has been set to Calculate.OnBarClose? Close[0] would only give the price of the close of the completed bar, not of the current bar.

[NinjaTrader_AlanP]

Hello fisbo,

If calculate was set to OnBarClose you could access the last price in OnMarketData,

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/?onmarketdata.htm

Please let us know if you need further assistance.

[fisbo]

GetCurrentAsk and GetCurrentBid

When OnBarClose is True, I can still access GetCurrentAsk() and GetCurrentBid(). It is surprising for me that both these functions are available but something like: GetCurrentPrice() is not! And I have use OnMarketData() just to get the current price! Anyway, thank you for the earlier answer, it certainly helped