Identifing color of the previous bar on Tick by Tick

[Jorge.andres.o]

Hello,

I am developing a strategy evaluating on TickbyTick. I need it to identify the color of the previous bar. However, the code does not work. Here if the condition:

if (CrossBelow(Close, low1, 2) && ( Close[2] > Open[2]) )
{
Long()
}

[NinjaTrader_Jim]

Hello Jorge.andres.o,

Thanks for your post.

If you want to see if the previous bar was an up or down bar, you will want to compare the Open and Close from 1 bar ago. We would do this to check for an up bar as opposed to checking the bar color, which the user may change freely.

I.E.

if (Close[1] > Open[1])
Print("Up Bar");

if (Close[1] < Open[1])
Print("Down Bar");

Working with Price Series - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ice_series.htm

Making sure you have enough bars in the data series you are referencing - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...nough_bars.htm

We look forward to assisting.

[Jorge.andres.o]

Jim,

thank you for the answer. Does it work the same way for onbarclose and tickbytick?

[NinjaTrader_Jim]

Hello Jorge.andres.o,

Yes, BarsAgo references would work the same way where BarsAgo 1 references the pervious bar.

The main difference with Calculate.OnBarClose vs. OnEachTick/OnPriceChange we should note is that OnBarClose updates when the bar has just closed, and OnEachTick/OnPriceChange continuously update as the developing bar updates instead.

We look forward to assisting.

[Jorge.andres.o]

Thank you Jim