Backtest strategy - PIVOT points - settlement price variation every session

[GauthamK]

Is there a way, i can backtest a strategy that is dependent upon settlement price, high and low of the previous day?

Setting parameters is useless, as these values vary every session.

[NinjaTrader_Emily]

Hello GauthamK,

Thank you for your post.

You could code the strategy so that it programmatically accesses the settlement price, high, and low of the previous day. These values could then be used to set certain conditions that the strategy actions are based on. For the prior day high and low, I suggest checking out the logic in the Prior Day OHLC indicator that comes with NinjaTrader or even calling the values from that indicator in your script.
The prior day's settlement price could be accessed one of two ways. Some data providers send out a settlement-adjusted close price for daily bars, and others do not. This is noted in the final column of the Data by Provider grid here:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/data_by_provider.htm

If your data provider does offer a settlement-adjusted close price for daily bars, you could add the daily bars to your strategy and access the Close price from the previous day. Otherwise, you could also utilize OnMarketData() updates. One of the data types received in OnMarketData() updates is MarketDataType.Settlement and that update could be used to get and save the settlement price from previous sessions. For more information:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/onmarketdata.htm

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/marketdataeventargs.htm

Please let use know if we may be of further assistance.