Calculating on bar close and price change

[Ceraphen]

Hi,

I am coding an indicator that I would like to do calculations both on bar close and on price change. Is there any way to do this in the script for 1 indicator?

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello Ceraphen,

Thanks for your post.

Yes, logic can be separated between Calculate.OnEachTick/OnPriceChange and Calculate.OnBarClose using IsFirstTickOfBar. Please note that a hosted script will inherit the Calculate mode of the script that hosts it. You can take the following approach to differentiate logic between OnBarClose and OnEachTick processing.

Please see this reference sample which demonstrates a technique used for those who need to separate their logic to calculate some values on each tick and others only on the close of a bar. Note that you will set your host script to Calculate.OnPriceChange and use if(IsFirstTickOfBar) and place all code that needs to calculate once every bar within that condition check. Then place all code that you want to calculate OnPriceChange outside of the IsFirstTickOfBar condition check.

SampleEnterOnceExitEveryTick -https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...either_cal.htm

Let me know if I may assist further.