Pace order at high of last bar

[BrJessey]

I can't believe I can't find a post with the answer to this.
I am looking to place an order when price crosses above/below of Bar(1) high/low
I am using tick update so it enters at time of cross.
if I reference Bar(1) high on IsFirstTick does it give me the high of the actual
previous bar? Then set variable for high. Then place order when it goes above
Is there a better way to do this?

[NinjaTrader_Emily]

Hello BrJessey,

Thank you for your post.

You can use the High or Low price series to access the high and low prices. This also takes an index for the number of barsAgo, so for example High[1] would be the high from 1 bar ago and Low[1] would be from 1 bar ago:

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

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

If you wanted to check if the current bar's close price is greater than the previous bar's high price, this would look like the following:
if (Close[0] > High[1])

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

[BrJessey]

That works OnBarUpdate() what about OnTickUpdate()?
High(1) will just give me the last tick with OnTickUpdate()
My question is how do I get high of last bar while using OnTickUpdate()

[NinjaTrader_Emily]

Hello BrJessey,

Thank you for your reply.

I'm not sure what you are referring to for OnTickUpdate(). If you have the calculate property set to Calculate.OnEachTick, then using a barsAgo of 1 will give you the value from 1 bar ago. High[1] will give you the high of the last bar (not the high from the previous tick) and you may use print statements to verify the values:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/forum/ninjatrader-7/strategy-development-aa/99209-date-conditions-not-working#post791121

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