Detecting Previous Red Bars - Not Working

[jerrod.davenport]

I appreciate any help on this matter. I wanted to add text to the top of the candles if the previous bar is red. Currently this is the only thing the strategy does. But it randomly skips bars and I don't know why. The code is very simple. This is in BackTesting by the way.

Questions:
1) Why is it randomly skipping bars?
2) Why does it always skip the first few bars of the day?

        protected override void OnBarUpdate()
        {
            if (CurrentBar < BarsRequiredToTrade)
                return;
        
            if (Close[1] < Open[1])  // RED BAR
                    Draw.Text(this, "R"+Bars.GetAsk(CurrentBar), "R", 0, High[0]+.01);​

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello jerrod.davenport,

Use unique tag names to create new drawing objects instead of moving existing drawing objects.

With your code a drawing object at the same ask price will have a duplicate tag and will modify to move the existing object instead of generating a new object.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/forum/ninjatrader-8/strategy-development/109349-strategy-buy-sell-signal-on-chart?p=838630#post838630

Add CurrentBar to the tag name so this is unique for each new bar.