Ninjascript - retrieve yesterday's settlement price

[JoshDance]

In an intraday chart indicator, I need to retrieve yesterday's settlement price.

The Pivots indicator has the ability to do this, and rather than reinvent the wheel I wondered if there is a way by calling this indicator programatically, or by some other exposed value elsewhere, that I can retrieve the value I'm looking for.

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

Josh,

There are not any exposed methods for doing so from the Pivots indicator.

You could use the Add() method to get the Daily series input and then use Closes[1][1] to access this value from IQFeed.

If you would rather not use the Add() method, you would have to duplicate the DailyBars logic in the pivot indicator, create a copy of the Pivots and expose the values you are after.

[JoshDance]

Originally Posted by NinjaTrader_Matthew

Josh,

There are not any exposed methods for doing so from the Pivots indicator.

You could use the Add() method to get the Daily series input and then use Closes[1][1] to access this value from IQFeed.

If you would rather not use the Add() method, you would have to duplicate the DailyBars logic in the pivot indicator, create a copy of the Pivots and expose the values you are after.

Thanks Matthew, I did use the Add() method and it was quite easy, compared with other messy logic, as long as it does as I expect

[Harry]

The Add() method has two restrictions when applied to daily bars:

-> it does not insert the daily bars correclty, if you use a session template with subsessions
-> you cannot load daily data from the period prior to the first day for which chart data is loaded

Both can be achieved with the approach shown for the Pivots indicator. However, the pivot indicator can not be called from a strategy or another indicator, when set to daily bars and when connected to a datafeed.