Reading MACD values on previous bars

[burtoninlondon]

Hello,

For my strategy I want to check that the MACD lines stay below the zero line between the current bar (yellow arrow) and the previous swing low (orange arrow).



I'm able to use the Swing indicator to count the number of bars the previous swing low occurred but the number of bars will vary depending on when the trade is taken.

I was therefore wondering what the best way would be to retrieve the values, is it possible to store the values in a series then use the number of bars between the yellow and orange arrows to call back the data of each bar against the series to then check if they meet the conditions?

Any help you can provide is appreciated.

Thanks,

Neil

[NinjaTrader_Jim]

Hello Neil,

Thanks for your post.

You can use the SwingLowBar method to detect the last swing low's BarsAgo and the swing low before that.

You could then loop from 0 to the BarsAgo found from the above, and within your loop, you can check where the MACD lines are at within the loop. This would check the MACD values from the current bar to where the last swing low was found.

Swing indicator documentation can be found here - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...html?swing.htm

I have attached a quick example to help illustrate.