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**NinjaTrader_Dierk** · 10-03-2007, 04:28 AM

That's just how NT builds the 60 and 120 bars.

Say there are these ticks:
02:10:30
02:11:30
02:12:30
02:14:30 <- "missing" tick at 02:13:30
02:15:30

Bars build on 60 secs series (A):
02:11:00
02:12:00
02:13:00
02:15:00
02:16:00

Bars build on 120 secs series (B):
02:12:00
02:14:00
02:16:00

This will yield:
A 02:11:00
A 02:12:00
B 02:12:00
A 02:13:00
B 02:14:00 <- problem
A 02:15:00
A 02:16:00
B 02:16:00

**qbit9** · 10-03-2007, 11:51 AM

So are you saying that if there isn't a tick during a bar, NT just skips the bar all together? So say I wanted to access a bar that was 5 seconds ago on a 1 second chart, but because no tick came in for a bar 3 seconds ago, if I access High[5], am I actually accessing the high value of 6 seconds ago?

I'm inferring this because it seems you're suggesting that the bar index numbers actually get out of sync for different time frames.

Code:

 missing
   tick
      |
      v
1 2 3   4 5 6 7 8
| | |   | | | | |
  1   2   3   4   5
  |   |   |   |   |

Shouldn't NT just store previous or NULL values for bars where no ticks came in so that the data series for different time frames stay in sync. I mean I would expect that if I had a 60 second time frame and a 120 second time frame, accessing 10 bars back on the 60 second time frame and 5 bars back on the 120 second time frame would give me data from the same time stamp (give or take 60 seconds).

**NinjaTrader_Ray** · 10-03-2007, 01:28 PM

The DataSeries class currently is bar driven vs time driven. We will introduce a time driven DataSeries class for NT7 due out later in 2008. If you are dealing with 1 and 5 second bars, the limitation will certainly be magnified.

**qbit9** · 10-03-2007, 02:36 PM

Originally posted by NinjaTrader_Ray View Post

The DataSeries class currently is bar driven vs time driven. We will introduce a time driven DataSeries class for NT7 due out later in 2008. If you are dealing with 1 and 5 second bars, the limitation will certainly be magnified.

Icic. Does the Plot class behave differently? If instead of creating custom DataSeries objects I add a Plot that I use to store values, are they bar driven or time driven? So say I have a 60 second time frame and a 120 second time frame. If I write an indicator, MyIndicator, like this:

Code:

protected override void Initialize()
{
  Add(Plot(Color.Transparent, PlotStyle.Line, "Am_I_Time_Driven"));
  PriceTypeSupported = true;
}

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
  double tSomeValue = DoSomeCalculations();  // Do some calculations
  Am_I_Time_Driven.Value.Set(tSomeValue);  // Store for later use
}

#region Properties
[Browsable(false)]
[XmlIgnore()]
public DataSeries Am_I_Time_Driven
{
  get { return Values[0]; }
}
#endregion

And then in MyStrategy:

Code:

#region Variables
private MyIndicator ind0;
private bool ind0Valid = false;
private MyIndicator ind1;
private bool ind1Valid = false;
#endregion

private override void Initialize()
{
  Add(PeriodType.Second, 120);
}

private override void OnBarUpdate()
{
  switch(BarsInProgress) {
    case 0:
      ind0 = MyIndicator(BarsArray[0]);
      if(!ind0Valid) ind0Valid = true;
      break;
    case 1:
      ind1 = MyIndicator(BarsArray[1]);
      if(!ind1Valid) ind1Valid = true;
      break;
  }
  if(ind0Valid && ind1Valid) {
    double tValue0 = ind0.Am_I_Time_Driven[10];
    double tValue1 = ind1.Am_I_Time_Driven[5];
  }
}

Can I then be sure that tValue0 and tValue1 are from the same "proximate" time period, i.e. that the two DataSeries are in no danger of "drifting apart" due to missing data points?

And am I right in assuming that NT will create separate instances of MyIndicator for BarsArray[0] and BarsArray[1]?

**NinjaTrader_Ray** · 10-03-2007, 03:02 PM

Same behaviour.

A plot itself is just an object that manages the visuals on the chart, the actual values themselves are stored in DataSeries objects.

NT does internally create separate instances of indicator objects if you pass in different parameters.

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