HeikenAshiBarsType calculatet based on UniRenkoBarsType

[sidlercom80]

Hi, I would like to use the UniRenkoBarsType as a price basis for the calculation of the HeikenAshi bars, unfortunately these are not listed in the selection. I suspect that a new *BarsTypes.cs has to be created. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to proceed. Is there perhaps a template or even a ready-made BarsType.cs? In the NinjatraderEcosystem I only found the HeikenAshi8 indicator, but since this is an indicator, and I like to have everything as a unique barstype, this does not help me.

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello sidlercom80,

Thanks for your post.

The reason for the Heiken-Ashi indicator is to be able to use it on exotic bar types.
I suspect you may not understand how to use the indicator.
The indicator will provide 4 values that you can use in your programming.
HAClose
HAOpen
HAHigh
HALow

Those are the names of the plots and you can access any or all four the same as if you were using standard bar data.

For example: if (HAClose[0] > HAOpen[0]) { // do something }

For input to an indicator, you can use it like this SMA(HAclose, 20)[0]; // 20 period SMA based on the Heiken - ashi close price.

To further assist I've created an example strategy that creates a private instance of the Heiken-Ashi indicator and an EMA indicator. This provides you with a specific example of how to use the indicator in both the bar data and as an input to an indicator. When applied to a chart of unirenko bars they then are the input to the Heiken-ashi indicator, thus meeting the need you specified of Unirenko input to Heiken-ashi.


Here is a screenshot of the example strategy:





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HeikenAshiExample.zip

[sidlercom80]

Hi _PaulH, thank you very much for your answer, that helped me very well.