Hi all

I am new to Ninjascript and trying to create a really basic script based around price action, but the script doesn't execute. The idea is simply to trigger a long trade on a hammer candlestick formation. Ideally, I would like to add a bullish engulfing/morning star to this on the same basis. This is what I have:

{
SetProfitTarget("", CalculationMode.Ticks, 42);

CalculateOnBarClose = true;
}

/// <summary>
/// Called on each bar update event (incoming tick)
/// </summary>
protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
// Condition set 1
if (Close[0] + 5 * TickSize > Low[0]
&& ToTime(Time[0]) >= ToTime(8, 0, 0)
&& ToTime(Time[0]) <= ToTime(17, 0, 0))
{
EnterLong(1, "");
}

}

thanks for any help

Try in adding a Print() to see what are the values of your conditions:

 

Code

Print("C: "+ Close[0] + 5 * TickSize+" Low: "+ Low[0] + " T1: "+ ToTime(Time[0]).toString() ....

If you never execute the EnterLong(), it's because your conditions are never met...

Thanks for that. I'm afraid I'm pretty much limited to using the wizard and got an error when I tried to add that code. But, I have compiled a new script to enter long when the high is 1 tick above the low and it doesn't, so there seems to be something else wrong. Other scripts are executing fine.