Current daily bar's Open data

[chnh1]

Is there is another way to retrieve the current daily bar's Open price other than setting the calculation method to calculate after each tick? I.E. is there another way of retrieving the current daily bar's Open price using Calculate.OnBarClose?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello chnh1,

A bar series has to update to get that information. (Unless you are wanting to use OnMarketData() and trigger actions in real-time)

You can add an additional tick series (or minute series if you are fine waiting for a minute bar to close) to your script to trigger actions intra-bar (intra day bar in this case).
A bool can be used that is set to true when the primary bar has closed and set back to false after the next bar with the added series received (or minute bar closes).

private bool primaryClosed;

in OnStateChange:
else if (State == State.Configure)
{
	AddDataSeries(BarsPeriodType.Tick, 1);
}
else if (State == State.DataLoaded)
{
	primaryClosed = false;
}

in OnBarUpdate:
if (CurrentBars[0] < 1 || CurrentBars[1] < 1)
	return;

if (BarsInProgress == 0)
{
	primaryClosed = true;
	// this is the primary series closing. the open of which should match the first tick or first minute's open
	Print(string.Format("{0} | bip0 | open: {1}, high: {2}, low: {3}, close: {4}", Times[0][0], Opens[0][0], Highs[0][0], Lows[0][0], Closes[0][0]));
}
else if (primaryClosed)
{
	primaryClosed = false;
	// this is the first bar of the added series
	Print(string.Format("{0} | bip1 | open[1]: {1}", Times[1][0], Opens[1][0]));
}