Plot the SMA of user defined variable

[maximusmeridius]

Hi,

I am a beginner with Ninjascript, so sorry if I am not able to explain the problem well... I'm trying to plot the SMA of some data I calculate on each bar... I tried saving the data into

private Series<double> MySeries

So that I could do something like this:


//assign values
MySeries[0] = A + B; //This isn't the actual calculation, just an example


//store the values after calculating the SMA of MySeries
MySeriesSMA[0] = SMA(MySeries, 20)[0];

//plot
Values[0][0] = MySeriesSMA[0]


I do not get a compiler errors and I can even see the data inside MySeriesSMA using Print() and it seems correct...

But it will not plot... If I do something like switch out SMA(MySeries, 20)[0]; with this SMA(ATR(), 20)[0]; it plots this data, so it means MySeries is causing the problem...

I hope that I am going about this completely wrong and that there is an easier way.

Thanks for any help

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello maximusmeridius,

Welcome to the NinjaTrader forums!

Are you adding a plot with AddPlot() in State.SetDefaults?

Below is a link to a forum post on adding plots.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/forum/ninjatrader-8/indicator-development/1182243-exposing-the-wavetrend-indicator-for-strategy-builder#post1182264

[maximusmeridius]

I ended up just creating a new project, and then starting over, slowly making sure each part works, and for some reason everything works as expected now LOL... The SMA of my data series plots now... I was basically wanting to plot 1 and 2 Stdev up/down lines of the data I was calculating, which I was able to do.. It is a TOS thinkscript that I use but I wanted to see if I could code it into ninjascript and eventually have Ninja trade it for me...
I'm sure I'll be asking more questions about strategy building soon

Thanks for the reply