Trying to find the lowest and highest price in a range of bars

[ezrollin]

I'm trying to make my complicated strategy enter on a cross of the lowest bars in a certain number of bars (so basically in a time period).
I'm trying to get the lowest PRICE in a certain time period and then enter if it crosses below that lowest PRICE.
I'm not sure which part I'm getting wrong.

1) I set that IF the current time period is the right one then my Lowbar double = LowestBar(close, in 12 bars)
2) IF my LowBar double = the currentBar(close) then my LowPrice double = current Low[0] bar.
3) IF the close crosses below the LowPrice then enter short.

thanks

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello ezrollin,

I would suggest to post the code you are trying to use for the 3 steps you mentioned, while that sounds like it may work I would need to see what you made to be sure of that.

The second step you mentioned may fail if you are checking if two prices are equal, you may want to change that to less than or equal to make sure the low is set to the variable in case the equality check fails. Double numbers in C# have a hard time comparing equality, you can read about that here https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...arithmetic.htm

[ezrollin]

My variables

[ezrollin]

If during the right time span (premarket)
then assign the lowest BAR to the premarketLOW double variable up to 12 bars back

[ezrollin]

If the premarketLOW bar is the current bar
then assign the low PRICE of that bar to the PremarketLowPRICE double variable.

then if close is less than the PremarketLowPRICE double then enter short.

[jaybedreamin]

Not 100% sure what you're asking, but from your OP it sounds like you're going to need some sort or MIN or MAX function. For example, to find the lowest price of the last 10 bars, you would so something like

double lowestLastTen = MIN(Low, 10)[0]

You can store this value in a variable and use it to compare against any other value you like. Hope that helps!

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/NT%20HelpGuide%20English.html?minimum_min.htm

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello ezrollin,

The most simple change from the images that you provided is to use the MIN and MAX indicator functions instead of LowestBar or HighestBar. The lowestbar function returns a number of bars ago and not a price. The MIN and MAX functions work in the same way but return a price instead.