Indicator as input to a strategy

[dastaan]

Hi NT,

I am trying to build a strategy which takes a pre-defined indicator as input. The strategy should be able to choose from all the indicators in NT.
I know about the "ENUM" but it isn't what I am looking for.

Otherwise, Is it possible to input a indicator name in strategy properties and later on call the indicator by it's name in strategy to calculate signals ?

I am not sure but maybe something like this :

private IndicatorBase inputIndicator1;
..
[XmlIgnore()]
[Description("Indicator 1 input data")]
[Category("Parameters")] [Gui.Design.DisplayName("Indicator 1")]
public NinjaTrader.Indicator.IndicatorBase InputIndicator1
{ get { return inputIndicator1; }
set { inputIndicator1 = value; } }

[NinjaTrader_Kate]

Hello dastaan,

Thank you for your post.

It may be possible, but would not be something we could provide very much assistance on as it would require unsupported code.

A dynamic type can be used for the actual indicator you want to use in your code, but we would also have to consider how to select any indicator as a property, how to modify the property grid to display those indicator properties, and how to construct the indicator with those parameters in our code.

Dynamic types are standard C# concepts and can be used freely, and we do have some insight for how TypeConverters can be used to dynamically modify the property grid:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/?using_a_typeconverter_to_custo.htm

However, we do not have an "All Indicators" picker to offer and we could not provide any insight for using Reflection to identify properties of the dynamically selected indicator and how to write a constructor with it.

Please let us know if we may be of further assistance to you.