Question on conversion of strategy to indicator

[manraygun]

Hi,
I copied this code from my automated strategy into an indicator shell created by the indicator wizard and I'm getting invalid token errors. Can you give me any tips on how to resolve them so I can compile the indicator?
Thanks.

[manraygun]

No response to this yet. Does this question violate the rules in some way?

[NinjaTrader_Emily]

Hello manraygun,

Thanks for your post and your patience.

I apologize for the delayed response. Due to some technical difficulties on our end, we were not notified of your post and did not respond promptly. This question does not violate the rules. The errors are related to the public int and public brush properties declared at the class level; do you intend for these to be user inputs? If so, they must be configured in State.SetDefaults with the appropriate logic in the Properties region of your script as well. I suggest creating these properties in the indicator wizard on the "Input Properties" page and then pasting the code generated for State.SetDefaults and Properties into your script (or pasting your other script logic into the script generated with the desired inputs configured on the User Inputs screen).

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

[manraygun]

Hi Emily, thanks for the reply.
Actually no, I don't need user inputs. Glad you pointed that out.
I made changes and got rid of a bunch of errors. Now I'm left with this: "Type or namespace name 'ExponentialMovingAverage' could not be found." Forgive my ignorance but any suggestions for this one?

[NinjaTrader_Emily]

Hello manraygun,

Thank you for your reply.

It seems as though you are trying to create EMA objects, correct? This would be declared as a private EMA and not private ExponentialMovingAverage:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/moving_average_-_exponential_e.htm

There is no type called "ExponentialMovingAverage" that exists in NinjaTrader by default, and that is why the error is being thrown.

An example using SMA instead of EMA may be found on the NinjaScript Best Practices page under Performance Practices > Performance practices > "Referencing indicator methods":

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

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

[manraygun]

Thank you!