Getting the daily volume MA from within a minute script

[AntiMatter]

I have been trying to do this all day, and seem to just be getting further away and confusing myself further....??!!!

I have a strategy which is on a 5 minute timeframe.

I need an average of the volume over e.g. the last 100 days. Only for today. That is all.

I have tried adding a Add(PeriodType.Daily, 1). However, it doesn't seem to work right. Am I not loading sufficient historic bars? Do I need to overload a dataseries object?

An easier way would be if I could call the VOLMA indicator, but instead of using the DataSeries from which I called it, could I not call the VOLMA indicator specifying a daily timeframe?

Thanks in advance

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hello antimatter,

You're likely on the right track with making sure you have enough historical bars loaded.

Once you add the series with this:
Add(PeriodType.Day, 1);

Accessing the 100 day volume average is:
double myDouble = SMA(Volumes[1], 100)[0];

You'll have to make sure you load enough days on your chart, and check the log tab for any error messages.

[AntiMatter]

How about if I want to put it in a strategy, and load that strategy from the control centre?

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

These principles work in an indicator or a strategy. There is a sample multiTime frame strategy built into the platform. Click Tools > Edit NinjaScript > Strategy > SampleMultiTimeFrame. Documentation is available here:

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/multi_time_frame__instruments.htm

[AntiMatter]

OK, so something like this...
Run my strategy with Paramater "Days to Load" = 100

Then:

protected override void Initialize()
{

Add(PeriodType.Day, 1);

.....etc


Later....


protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{

double vol = ( VOLMA(BarsArray[1], 100)[0]);


...etc


Should be the 100 day MA?

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Yes, that should work as well. To confirm the value is what you expect, print it.

Print(vol);

View in the Tools > output window. Additional help for debugging is available here:

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3418

[AntiMatter]

Getting there, thanks for the help....

What I really want to do, is just run this bit of code once at the start of each code.
I want to find the 100 day MA of the volume for the last 100 days, on this day (today).

Then if the volume is below a certain quantity, I can kill the strategy.

At the moment, I am running this on each bar update. Ideally, I just want to do this once, but only on the most current bar. But I want to access the latest bar from the when the script is started..... rather than cycling through all the last 100 days....???!!

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

You can custom code the conditions for calculating this indicator, but must be objective about what you want to express. If you only wanted the calculated value on historical data (data prior to starting the strategy), you could enclose the calculations in a block like this:

if (Historical)
{
//indicatorCalcs here
}

[AntiMatter]

How would I know it was the last historical bar? e.g. the most recent data?

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

You can store bar values with CurrentBar.

if (Historical)
int myBar = CurrentBar.

That will update myBar with the last historical, CurrentBar value.