Enter on Third Bar open

[Rawheritage]

Hi,

Once my strategy meets conditions I would like to enter on the THIRD bar OPEN.

How can I code that? Does anyone have any examples?

I would appreciate your help!

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello Rawheritage,

Thanks for your post.

When your condition is true save the bar number, then test that the current bar is 3 bars past the saved bar number. For example, savedBar is declared as private int savedBar;

if (your conditions)
{
savedBar = CurrentBar; // store the current bar number
}

if (CurrentBar - savedBar == 3)
{
// entry order
}

Reference: http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...currentbar.htm

Note: If (your conditions) become true again before 3 bars it will reset the count.

[WilliamW]

Hi Paul,

If I used these lines in a strategy, is it enough to declare the savedBar as follows:

private int savedBar;

or do I have to specify something else in that line?

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello WilliamW,

Thanks for your post and welcome to the forums!

That would be the correct way to declare an int variable in the regions Variable.

The // entry order would be replaced by the actual order used for entry.