Finding the beginning of a swing

[morrnel]

Greetings,
I am developing a strategy using the builtin swing indicator..
I want to use information regarding the last two swings, the last low and the last high. I want to know the date of the leftmost dot in either case.

How do I find it?

Thanks

Morris

[bltdavid]

Welcome to the forums!

The Swing indicator supports two methods that return the BarsAgo index of the bar where the swing occurred.

Try using the SwingHighBar/SwingLowBar methods.
The return value could then be used to access the Time series, something like this,

int SwingHighBarsAgo = Swing(strength).SwingHighBar(0, [COLOR=#FF0000]1[/COLOR], CurrentBar);
int SwingLowBarsAgo = Swing(strength).SwingLowBar(0, [COLOR=#FF0000]1[/COLOR], CurrentBar);

if (SwingHighBarsAgo != -1 && SwingLowBarsAgo != -1)
{
    DateTime SwingHighDateTime = Time[SwingHighBarsAgo];
    DateTime SwingLowDateTime = Time[SwingLowBarsAgo];
    ....
}

This should get you what you want.

EDIT:
Changed the code to better reflect OP's original question.

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi morrnel, thanks for your post.

I agree with bltdavid's answer here. Thanks for sharing bltdavid