Strategy changes ticks per bar on the fly?

[aworldnervelink]

I am running a strategy on a chart with tick bars. Is it possible/supported to have the strategy change the configuration of the tick bars on the fly? I have tried assigning a value to BarsPeriod.Value and this seems to change the Tick Counter but have no obvious other effect. What I am looking for is the strategy disables; the chart reloads; the strategy re-enables; all exactly as if I had manually clicked on Data Series and edited Value. The big picture is that under certain conditions I want to alter the timeframe I am looking at; the most important thing is that an indicator applied to the chart gets to recalculate based upon the new data.

If this is not possible, as a fallback, is it possible to manage one's own data series and recreate it when needed? For example, call AddDataSeries as shown under the Creating a new BarsPeriod object example. I'm guessing this wouldn't be charted so it is not ideal but it might work for my purposes.

Thanks!

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello aworldnervelink,

Thank you for the post.

In general what you described is not really possible from supported code. You could use keyboard events to manually change the chart and cause the reload similar to how the RolloverIndications indicator on the user app share changes instrument.

https://ninjatraderecosystem.com/user-app-share-download/rolloverindications-2/

From code there is no supported way to dynamically change the series or chart data series properties. This also applies to AddDataSeries, there is no supported way to dynamically change that. You can do a BarsRequest to access bar data and live data however this is not useful if you need to pass data to indicators as a series. https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ub=barsrequest


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