filtering triggers by range

[gordongekko]

Is it possible to have an alert trigger only if the close of the current bar is a greater than or equal to a specific number of ticks from the high x number of bars back? What I want to do is filter out tight ranges from my alerts so if I set the minimum range to be at least 10 ticks from the trigger to the previous high or low x number of bars back it wont send an alert unless that condition is met in addition to the other conditions of the alert. If this is possible please provide the code for it's implementation. Thanks in advance.

[NinjaTrader_AlanP]

Hello gordongekko,

Thank you for your note.

Yes this would be possible.

If you’d like to check if the current price is above the high 5 bars ago, plus 5 ticks, you would use,

if(Close[0]>High[5] +5*TickSize)

If you were interested if the current bar was highest of the last x bars, you could use HighestBar to get the bar index of the highest high of the last n bars, then pass that index to High[bar index] to get the high of that bar.

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

To add ticks to a specific value, you use TickSize,

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

To Trigger the Alert you would use,

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

Please let us know if you need further assistance.