how to get tick count for a certain range?

[HiddenPhilosopher]

Hi,

I'm developing an indicator that needs to get the total number of tick counts within a specific range.

For example, if I'm loading a daily bar chart for the last 30 days. I need to count how many ticks there are in total in these 30 daily bars.

I found Bars.TickCount. But it only returns total number of ticks of current bar. Then how do I return total number of ticks within last 30 bars?

Thank you!

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hello HiddenPhilosopher, thanks for your question.

That would need to be implemented in the indicator e.g.

public class CountTicks : Indicator
    {
        protected override void OnStateChange()
        {
            if (State == State.SetDefaults)
            {
                //...
            }
            else if (State == State.Configure)
            {
                AddDataSeries(Data.BarsPeriodType.Tick, 1);
            }
        }

        int tickCounter = 0;
        protected override void OnBarUpdate()
        {
            if(BarsInProgress == 1)
            {tickCounter++;}

            if(BarsInProgress == 0)
            {
                if(CurrentBars[0] % 30 == 0)
                {
                    Print(tickCounter);
                    tickCounter = 0;
                }
            }

        }
    }

That's just one way you could do it. There could be many ways though.

Please let me know if I can assist any further.