Plotting Prior Day settlement for NQ

[woodyfox]

Hi, I tried to make this indicator that would plot the prior day close (Settlement) at Hour 16 Minute 15. I use UniRenko bars and with session template 24 X 7. Just trying to find a way to plot the true settlement price from CME Futures RTH. The indicator dose not want to plot. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,

[Harry]

Hi, I tried to make this indicator that would plot the prior day close (Settlement) at Hour 16 Minute 15. I use UniRenko bars and with session template 24 X 7. Just trying to find a way to plot the true settlement price from CME Futures RTH. The indicator dose not want to plot. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,

The session template 24x7 is about the worst to use. It transforms five regular trading days into a Sunday afternoon session, 4 trading day shifted by a few hours and a truncated trading day on Friday. This will just turn out rubbish. Please use the preset trading hours template <instrument settings>.

NinjaTrader fails when loading a secondary bar series of daily data as you would do with other bar types that are set up intraday. Because of this failure, the NinjaTrader pivots indicator - which actually retrieves yesterday's settlement price - uses BarsArray[1].GetClose to access the settlement price. Please have a look at the code of the pivots indicator.

That said, the NinjaTrader pivots indicator also has a bug, as it only returns the correct settlement price in 97.5% of all days when applied to historical data.

Please find below links to indicators that all will display the correct settlement price for CME futures.

https://www.lizardindicators.com/indicator-library-2/session-tools/daily-pivots/

https://www.lizardindicators.com/indicator-library-2/volatility-indicators/daily-range-projections/

https://www.lizardindicators.com/indicator-library-2/fibonacci-indicators/fibs-from-prior-day/

The indicators use BarsArray[1].GetClose for the case when not being connected, The code is somewhat difficult to grasp, but does the trick

if(IsConnected())
{    
   if(tradingDate0[0] > tradingDate1[0]) 
       priorClose = currentDailyClose;
  else
       priorClose = priorDailyClose;
}    
else // workaround 
{
  priorClose = currentHistoricalClose[1];
  count = 0;
  priorDailyBarDate = BarsArray[1].GetTime(BarsArray[1].GetBar(Times[0][1]));
  dailyBarDate = BarsArray[1].GetTime(BarsArray[1].GetBar(Times[0][0]));
  if(priorDailyBarDate == dailyBarDate && BarsArray[1].Count - 2 > CurrentBars[1])
  {    
       while (priorDailyBarDate >= dailyBarDate)
       {    
             count = count - 1;
             priorDailyBarDate = BarsArray[1].GetTime(BarsArray[1].GetBar(Times[0][1].AddDays(count)));
             if (count == -5)
                  break;
       }    
       priorClose = BarsArray[1].GetClose(BarsArray[1].GetBar(Times[0][1].AddDays(count)));
   }
 }

I am sorry, but this subject is one of the more complex ones.

[NinjaTrader_AlanP]

Hello woodyfox,

Thank you for your note.

I have attached a sample indicator which will plot today's High of both its electronic and pit session. You could use this as a template for using session templates and plotting previous days values based on pit or electronic sessions.

Please let us know if you need further assistance.

[woodyfox]

Hello woodyfox,

Thank you for your note.

I have attached a sample indicator which will plot today's High of both its electronic and pit session. You could use this as a template for using session templates and plotting previous days values based on pit or electronic sessions.

Please let us know if you need further assistance.

Very nice. This is what I was looking for.
Thanks.