ATR over the SMA?

[coopgrafik]

On the charts, you can overlay the ATR on top of an SMA. Can you share with me how, in the strategy builder, I would describe this in code?

I tried:

ATR(14)[0] > SMA(200)[0];

This doesn't work. Again, just trying to create a condition based on the chart screenshot below. Thank you!

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hello coopgrafik, thanks for writing in.

The values from the SMA will likely always be greater than the ATR values. When they are overlayed on a chart they are crossing each other, but only visually. You would need to normalize the values so that the actual numbers are comparable. Unfortunately to do something complex with indicator values the script will need to be unlocked and written by hand through the NinjaScript editor. A function like the following would need to be used to normalize the SMA and ATR values between 0 and 1

function(val, max, min) { return (val - min) / (max - min); } //pseudo code

Please let me know if I can assist any further.

[coopgrafik]

Thank you!