EnterShort() out of an indicator

December 25th, 2014, 06:03 PM

Hello traders,

i am a new user of ninjaTrader and i am writing my own little indicator.
Now i want to automate it an try to make calls to EnterShort() or EnterLong() ...

but sadly i get the compile error : CS0103

the call from an strategy is possible

thanks and greetings

December 25th, 2014, 06:46 PM

Only strategies can place orders. Indicators cannot place orders. You need to write a strategy.

December 25th, 2014, 06:49 PM

thank u for the answer.
have nice Christmastime !

i have tryed to port the indicator to an strategy, but without the full succes

i have written now a Strategy, like you recommended to me

now i need one value (of the member UpTrend ) of the indicator TSSuperTrend in my stategy.
but i do not know how to reference that one. the try to reference it like i successfull do with the SMA does not work

i hope somebody understand my problem despite my bad english

Code

#region Using declarations
using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Drawing2D;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using NinjaTrader.Cbi;
using NinjaTrader.Data;
using NinjaTrader.Indicator;
using NinjaTrader.Gui.Chart;
using NinjaTrader.Strategy;
#endregion

// This namespace holds all strategies and is required. Do not change it.
namespace NinjaTrader.Strategy
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Enter the description of your strategy here
	/// </summary>
	[Description("Enter the description of your strategy here")]
	public class MyStrategy : Strategy
	{
		#region Variables
			private DataSeries		diff;
		#endregion

		/// <summary>
		/// This method is used to configure the strategy and is called once before any strategy method is called.
		/// </summary>
		protected override void Initialize()
		{
			diff				= new DataSeries(this);
			CalculateOnBarClose = false;
			ClearOutputWindow();
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Called on each bar update event (incoming tick)
		/// </summary>
		protected override void OnBarUpdate()
		{
			if(CurrentBar < 30){
				return;
			}

			double FA = SMA(Close, 3)[0];
			double SA = SMA(Close, 10)[0];

			double val = (FA - SA) / TickSize;

			diff.Set(val);

			if (Rising(diff)){
				Print(Time[0] + "  #  upTrend   #  " +  Math.Round(val));
			}
			else{
				Print(Time[0] + "  #  downTrend    #  " +  Math.Round(val));
			}

			// the folowing line Print(...) produces compiler error : NinjaTrader.Strategy.Strategy.TSSuperTrend(int, TSSuperTrend.Utility.MovingAverageType, double, int, TSSuperTrend.Utility.SuperTrendMode)' is a 'method', which is not valid in the given context

			Print(TSSuperTrend(14, TSSuperTrend.Utility.MovingAverageType.SMA, 2.618, 14, TSSuperTrend.Utility.SuperTrendMode.ATR).UpTrend[0]);
		}

		#region Properties
		#endregion
	}
}

December 28th, 2014, 10:41 PM

After downloading and installing this version of TSSuperTrend, this code compiles fine

Code

Print(TSSuperTrendV2_4(14, TSSuperTrend.Utility.MovingAverageType.SMA, 2.618, 14, TSSuperTrend.Utility.SuperTrendMode.ATR).UpTrend[0]);

I'm not sure which one you are using

December 30th, 2014, 07:32 AM

This is probably not what you want to hear, but I would concern myself more with market structure than indicators.

December 30th, 2014, 08:13 PM