Detecting same BarsPeriodType and Value

[cincai]

I was planing to AddDataSeries(BarsPeriodType.Tick, 500);

However, I noticed that, if my chart is already BarsPeriodType == Tick and value == 500, it still run the AddDataSeries.

Is that anyway to detect it and thus not adding the AddDataSeries(BarsPeriodType.Tick, 500); when my chart is already same BarsPeriodType and value same.

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello cincai,

Thank you for writing in.

In most cases, we could retrieve information on the primary data series from State.Configure using BarsPeriod, but this is not fully supported. (Optimizations are one place where accessing data from State.Configure would not be able to load information on primary data series)

That being said, you could use BarsPeriod.BarsPeriodType and BarsPeriod.Value to get the BarsPeriod type and value within your script.

Also, something you could do is write the logic in your script to ignore BarsInProgress 0 within the OnBarUpdate() method. To do so, the code would look something like this.

if (BarsInProgress == 0)
return;

See the help guide documentation below for more information.
BarsPeriod - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...barsperiod.htm
BarsInProgress - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...inprogress.htm

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