Swing indicator within strategies

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello burmaz,

Thanks for your notes.

The Development team looked into the reported Swing indicator behavior and decided to enforce Calculate.OnBarClose for the Swing indicator.

I have submitted a feature request to the Development team for not enforcing Calculate.OnBarClose for the Swing indicator so that Calculate.OnPriceChange or Calculate.OnEachTick could be used for the Swing indicator so they may consider implementing this in a future NinjaTrader release.

This request is being tracked under the number SFT-6218.

As with all feature requests, interest is tracked before implementation is considered, so we cannot offer an ETA or promise of fulfillment. If implemented, it will be noted on the Release Notes page of the Help Guide.

Release Notes:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/release_notes.htm

If you need a strategy to calculate some logic OnPriceChange/OnEachTick and other logic OnBarClose, we have a reference sample demonstrating how this could be done using IsFirstTickOfBar here: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...either_cal.htm

[burmaz]

Hello burmaz,

Thanks for your notes.

The Development team has investigated this matter further and they have informed the Support team that they decided when using the Swing indicator you must use Calculate.OnBarClose.

Calculate.OnEachTick or Calculate.OnPriceChange should not be used with the Swing indicator.

So the bug was not fixed after all despite being told otherwise.

So a bug was reported, customers went through great effort to explain the bug in this thread to NT, NT acknowledges there's a bug, but they're refusing to fix it? 7 years after this bug was first reported?

Some strategies MUST be run on 'each tick' or 'price change'. Calculating on bar close is not an option.

This bug needs to be fixed.

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello burmaz,

Thanks for your notes.

The Development team has investigated this matter further and they have informed the Support team that they decided when using the Swing indicator you must use Calculate.OnBarClose.

Calculate.OnEachTick or Calculate.OnPriceChange should not be used with the Swing indicator.

[burmaz]

Hello burmaz,

Thanks for your notes.

Yes, I have heard back from the Development team on this matter.

The Development team has investigated the reported behavior and implemented a fix in the latest version release of NinjaTrader (8.1.2.0).

Please update NinjaTrader to the latest version (8.1.2.0) by following the steps below.

To update NinjaTrader

• Shutdown all programs including NinjaTrader *important
• Download NinjaTrader from the link below
  • Click here to download NinjaTrader
• Double click the downloaded file to execute it
• Follow the on screen instructions
• Restart NinjaTrader

You can read about changes to this release in the release notes linked below.
https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ease_notes.htm

Hello,

Following up on what Makri posted above, the update made to the swing indicator still does not fix the problem. I am trying to run the indicator on a 'on price change' strategy and the swing indicator is triggering trades from swings that do not show up on the chart.

When will ninjatrader fix this major bug?? This thread is almost 7 years old now!

[makri]

Hello burmaz,

Thanks for your notes.

Yes, I have heard back from the Development team on this matter.

The Development team has investigated the reported behavior and implemented a fix in the latest version release of NinjaTrader (8.1.2.0).

Please update NinjaTrader to the latest version (8.1.2.0) by following the steps below.

To update NinjaTrader

• Shutdown all programs including NinjaTrader *important
• Download NinjaTrader from the link below
  • Click here to download NinjaTrader
• Double click the downloaded file to execute it
• Follow the on screen instructions
• Restart NinjaTrader

You can read about changes to this release in the release notes linked below.
https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ease_notes.htm

Hi

So basically what they did was to add "Calculate = Calculate.OnBarClose;"
This is forcing the indicator to calculate on OnBarClose and you cant change it to OnEachTick.
This solution doesn't help anyone as we want the indicator to be able to calculate OnEachTick and still show the same values as it does using calculate OnBarClose.

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello burmaz,

Thanks for your notes.

Yes, I have heard back from the Development team on this matter.

The Development team has investigated the reported behavior and implemented a fix in the latest version release of NinjaTrader (8.1.2.0).

Please update NinjaTrader to the latest version (8.1.2.0) by following the steps below.

To update NinjaTrader

• Shutdown all programs including NinjaTrader *important
• Download NinjaTrader from the link below
  • Click here to download NinjaTrader
• Double click the downloaded file to execute it
• Follow the on screen instructions
• Restart NinjaTrader

You can read about changes to this release in the release notes linked below.
https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ease_notes.htm

[burmaz]

Hello burmaz,

Thanks for your note.

We do not have an ETA that we can provide as to when a resolution will be implemented for this.

There are many factors involved when it comes to testing and implementing a fix for a bug.

You'll find a note regarding a fix for the issue in the release notes when it is implemented.

Release Notes: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ease_notes.htm

Any updates on this? It's been 5 months since the issue was reported to the development team and we haven't gotten a response yet.

[QuantKey_Bruce]

How long does it usually take for Ninjatrader to correct a bug like this after it has been reported? Days? Weeks? Months?

Do you really want to know?

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello burmaz,

Thanks for your note.

We do not have an ETA that we can provide as to when a resolution will be implemented for this.

There are many factors involved when it comes to testing and implementing a fix for a bug.

You'll find a note regarding a fix for the issue in the release notes when it is implemented.

Release Notes: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ease_notes.htm

[burmaz]

Hello bltdavid,

Thanks for your notes.

This is classified as a bug and not as a feature request. Not everything is classified as a feature request.

That said, this bug is being tracked under NT-4641.

How long does it usually take for Ninjatrader to correct a bug like this after it has been reported? Days? Weeks? Months?

[bltdavid]

This is classified as a bug and not as a feature request. Not everything is classified as a feature request.

That said, this bug is being tracked under NT-4641.

Ah, good to know, thanks

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello bltdavid,

Thanks for your notes.

This is classified as a bug and not as a feature request. Not everything is classified as a feature request.

That said, this bug is being tracked under NT-4641.

[bltdavid]

No, there are no updates at this time.

I will update this forum thread with more information as soon as I hear back from the Development team on the matter.

How come there is no 'feature request' number?

I mean, it's a bug, but you guys classify everything to
the users as 'feature requests' -- so, what's the number?

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello burmaz,

Thanks for your note.

No, there are no updates at this time.

I will update this forum thread with more information as soon as I hear back from the Development team on the matter.

[burmaz]

Hello,

Thanks for your notes.

I was able to reproduce the behavior in question reguarding the Swing indicator and I reported the behavior to the Development team. They will look into the behavior as soon as they are available.

Once the Development team reaches back out to me with their findings I will update this forum thread with more information.

Thanks for reporting the behavior and providing steps to reproduce it.

It looks like more and more people are coming forward with problems with this issue. The OP posted this issue 5.5 years ago.

Are there any updates from ninjatrader on this?