would anyone be able to help with converting code from Tradestation into Ninja Trader?
inputs:
MALength( 20 ),
Price( Close ),
UseGradientColor( true ),
NegGradColor( Red ),
PosGradientColor( Green ) ;

variables:
MAValue( 0 ),
MASlope( 0 ),
MAAngle( 0 ) ;

MAValue = AverageFC( Price, MALength ) ;

MASlope = ( MAValue - MAValue[1] ) * (PriceScale / MinMove ) ;

MAAngle = ArcTangent( MASlope ) ;

if UseGradientColor then
SetPlotColor( 1, GradientColor( MAAngle, -90, 90, NegGradColor, PosGradientColor )) ;

Plot1( MAAngle, "MA Angle" ) ;

You could look at various zigzag indicators, which are already available for NinjaTrader. Also, If you define swing highs and lows, there are two different concepts:

(a) define a high or low as a bar with a higher high or lower low than the n surrounding bars (strenght n)

(b) define highs and lows based on a zigzag with a minimum deviation

I prefer the method which uses the minimum deviation, as it will not plot a large number of useless highs and lows in a choppy market which is going nowhere.

But the best method obviously depends on what you want to do with those highs and lows, and then you did not tell us.

sorry i didnt tell the whole story. i am wanting to use these as confirmation entries. this is what the idea of it is and this is posted above in the code.
"This plots swing highs/lows with a strength of 2 bars on each side, on the condition that there is a
close above/below the high/low the bar after the said swing bar."

i simply want it to plot a dot whenever this occurs. it can plot the dot when you get the close within 2 bars of said swing high/low bar with a strength of 2 bars on each side. hope this helps.
it is simply meant to trigger an entry and it also plots the price of the swing high/low when it plots so you know where to place your stop. you can see the pic attached to get the idea. thanks!!!

Try this pivot points, I'm sure probably is not exactly as in Tradestation, which I have too, bute it gives prettty much the same result for buy/sell decision

Can you someone please provide the Tradestation Code that creates the Swing Dots as mentioned by the starter of this post ?

BIG-DOTS

kris123 

Can you someone please provide the Tradestation Code that creates the Swing Dots as mentioned by the starter of this post ? BIG-DOTS

The NT8 Swing indie can do that and continues to add dots until the high or swing low is invalidated by price moving passed the Swing point.

Thanks for the pointer. Do you have a link for that NT8 Swing Indicator you were referring to ?

kris123 

Thanks for the pointer. Do you have a link for that NT8 Swing Indicator you were referring to ?

SWING is a base indie in the install of NT8.

Got it. Just nstalled and checked .Quite an useful Indicator. Thanks again.