forcing bar closes and price changes

[ezrollin]

How can I run my strategy on a price change basis but trick the entry reason into being on bar close?
Surely there has to be a way? thanks

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello ezrollin,

Thanks for your post.

Yes, logic can be separated between Calculate.OnPriceChange and Calculate.OnBarClose using IsFirstTickOfBar. Please note that a hosted script will inherit the Calculate mode of the script that hosts it. You can take the following approach to differentiate logic between OnBarClose and OnPriceChange processing.

Please see this reference sample which demonstrates a technique used for those who need to separate their logic to calculate some values on each tick and others only on the close of a bar. In your script, you would use Calculate.OnPriceChange instead of Calculate.OnEachTick.

SampleEnterOnceExitEveryTick -https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...either_cal.htm

You will set your host script to Calculate.OnPriceChange and use if(IsFirstTickOfBar) and place all code that needs to calculate once every bar within that condition check. Then place all code that you want to calculate OnPriceChange outside of the IsFirstTickOfBar condition check.


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