Time to bar conversion

[spottysallrite]

How do I get the bars number of the 1 tick series for some arbitrary amount of time (say, 30 seconds) before the current bar ?

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi Spotty, thanks for posting. You will need C# logic that will loop back through the historical bars and stop at a certain point. I would use a While loop to do this and use the DateTime.Compare() method to compare the tick's timestamp to a hard coded timestamp.

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/datetime-compare-method-in-chash#:~:text=Compare()%20method%20in%20C%23%20is%20used%20for%20comparison%20of,is%20the%20same%20as%20date2

Kind regards.

[spottysallrite]

Hmm. Well, what I'm trying to do is get the lowest tick price over that time interval, and am thinking "LowestBar()" will part of this solution. So, isn't there a way within NT to convert a time to a bar? I'm pretty sure I've done this before. I've scoured the HelpGuide, but can't find it now. I must be looking in the wrong place. Any ideas?

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi Spotty, I attached an example our colleague made. It builds minute bars from tick data. This is the closest example of doing this.

Kind regards.