Create Custom Date Series

[fiddich]

Hello,

I have a set of 50 dates in Excel and in my strategy, I want to be able to check to see if today's date is equal to any of those 50 dates.

I figured that I need to create a custom series in the strategy and store all the dates in that series somehow and then check against it in a loop, but I'm unsure how to do that exactly. Would anyone be able to help? Thanks in advance.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello fiddich,

A Series<T> object holds a value for every bar on the chart. Are you trying to save a value for every bar on the chart?

Or are you trying to save a list of items which can be saved in an Array or List<T> object?

Below is a link to the help guide on Series<T> which includes example code.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/seriest.htm

Also, below is a public link to a 3rd party educational site on for loops.

https://www.dotnetperls.com/for

[fiddich]

The latter, trying to save a list of items (dates) and store them in an array so I can check against them within the strategy.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello fiddich,

Use an array (DateTime[]) or a list (List<DateTime>). These are general c# objects and are specific to NinjaScript.

Below are public links to a 3rd party educational site on arrays and lists.

https://www.dotnetperls.com/array

https://www.dotnetperls.com/list