max-td 

ie. if you wanna code an ENTRY after the Bar closes Above / Below EMA 50 - thats not possible at the moment.

I'm not a ZN trader, so I may be confused, but... the EMA is computed on the Close[x]... so however ninja presents Close[x] to you is the same units your resulting ema is in. They should be directly comparable in code, even if ninja does some formatting to plot price as xxx'yyy on your Y axis. If Close[x] is pre-formatted in the xxx'yyy sense, then your EMA would be bogus because it doesn't take that into account. But I doubt ninja would do that, for that reason.

Again, as I don't trade ZN there may be some detail that escapes me, but on general principle that should be how things are.

lol - or changing the string format to a {0}.{1:000} - line

ok test this is not tested have no datas

max-td 

lol - or changing the string format to a {0}.{1:000} - line

jajajajajajajajaja

hi Richard,
thanks for input!
dont know - havnt tried it yet.
i am a bit confused with these ZN-values - also not familliar ZN
- so i wanted to convert it first + then do my codings with the values - maybe one step too much .... hm .. i will test it.

Hi to Richard again,
i tested some things on the WE and you are absoutly right !
it s not important in which value-format the EMA is shown in the chart - ninja realizes the corect comparable of EMA + ZN value at Close[x] !
Great - so the whole translation-idea is senseless - except of if you want to plot the values in text-format.
But in strategys it is not necessary at all.
An ENTRY after the Bar closes Above / Below EMA 50 works fine.
well - learned some things in coding with that.
learned more on basicly understanding ninjatrader + processing - also not bad
The journey is the reward.

max-td 

Hi to Richard again, i tested some things on the WE and you are absoutly right ! it s not important in which value-format the EMA is shown in the chart - ninja realizes the corect comparable of EMA + ZN value at Close[x] ! Great - so the whole translation-idea is senseless - except of if you want to plot the values in text-format. But in strategys it is not necessary at all. An ENTRY after the Bar closes Above / Below EMA 50 works fine. well - learned some things in coding with that. learned more on basicly understanding ninjatrader + processing - also not bad The journey is the reward.

If you want to Print() anything it will be important. There is also a particular closed-source script I have that requires it due to the way it calculates some math... so, 99% agree with you but 1% is important.

Mike

Yeah, for printing I imagine the code samples earlier in the thread will suffice. If there are libraries that expect a translated double, then for efficiency's sake I'd suggest using a method that doesn't go double -> string -> double. Lots of memory allocation in that path, that can surely be avoided by staying in number space.