charting a futures pair?

[waterman]

Is there a way to chart a futures pair? For example 50*ES-6*/YM or PEP- 3*KO (multiplication to make them notionally equal)

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi waterman, thanks for posting. See the Spread indicator here:

https://ninjatraderecosystem.com/user-app-share-download/spread-indicator-with-candlesticks-2/

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[waterman]

Thanks Chris,

Is there a way to apply other indicators or a system to the Spread Indicator?

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi waterman, you can use the Spread indicator in a Strategy. All the strategy needs to do is add the same data series you pass into the Spread indicator and create the Spread object similar to the SMA objects in the SampleMACrossover strategy. To apply an indicator to it, you can select any indicator in the Spread settings under the "Input Series".

Kind regards,
-ChrisL

[waterman]

Chris, would all of my strategies be "tweeked" to allow them to work with the Spread Indicator??? BTW I've approached several programmers with doing this (creating a chart of an intermarket futures spread ...ie Crude Gas CL RB.......and applying a strategy to the spread candles.)...but none of the programmers seem to get it or say it's impossible. Am I not explaining it correctly?

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi, the spread indicator can be used in a strategy. See here for documentation on initializing indicators in other scripts. Since the Spread indicator is using AddDataSeries() to add another series, the hosting strategy will also need to add the exact same data series.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...tm#Performance //see "Referencing indicator methods"

[waterman]

Hey Chris...thank you. I ran this past the programmer I hired (who also wrote the strategy I want to apply to the spread) He said it would take 8 hrs to apply the strategy to the pairs.
I know this might be an awkward question....but you make it seem like an easy process....should it take that long?

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi waterman, thanks for the follow up. It depends on the current status of the code. Adding a data series can mean you would need to re-structure the entire OnBarUpdate method, so it can take 20 minutes or it could take 8 hours, it really depends on what the code is doing.