GetBar() has broken my brain!

[Sleeping Troll]

Here is my partial code:

            barsAgo = Bars.GetBar(new DateTime(Current.Year,1,1,0,0,0));
            Yhigh = HighestBar(High,barsAgo);
            Print(Yhigh+", "+barsAgo);
            Ylow = LowestBar(Low,barsAgo);
            Print(Ylow+", "+barsAgo);
            Yopen = Open[barsAgo];
            Print(Yopen+", "+barsAgo);
            barsAgo = Bars.GetBar(new DateTime(Current.Year,Current.Month,1,0,0,0));
            Mhigh = HighestBar(High,barsAgo);
            Print(Mhigh+", "+barsAgo);
            Mlow = LowestBar(Low,barsAgo);
            Print(Mlow+", "+barsAgo);
            Mopen = Open[barsAgo];
            Print(Mopen+", "+barsAgo);
            barsAgo = Bars.GetBar(new DateTime(Current.Year,Current.Month,Current.Day,0,0,0));
            Whigh = HighestBar(High,barsAgo);
            Print(Whigh+", "+barsAgo);
            Wlow = LowestBar(Low,barsAgo);
            Print(Wlow+", "+barsAgo);
            Wopen = Open[barsAgo];
            Print(Wopen+", "+barsAgo);
            barsAgo = Bars.GetBar(new DateTime(Current.Year,Current.Month,Current.Day,0,0,0));
            Dhigh = HighestBar(High,barsAgo);
            Print(Dhigh+", "+barsAgo);
            Dlow = LowestBar(Low,barsAgo);
            Print(Dlow+", "+barsAgo);
            Dopen = Open[barsAgo];
            Print(Dopen+", "+barsAgo);
            barsAgo = Bars.GetBar(new DateTime(Current.Year,Current.Month,Current.Day,0,0,0));
            Phigh = HighestBar(High,barsAgo);
            Print(Phigh+", "+barsAgo);
            Plow = LowestBar(Low,barsAgo);
            Print(Plow+", "+barsAgo);
            Popen = Open[barsAgo];
            Print(Popen+", "+barsAgo);
            DrawHorizontalLine("Yhigh",Yhigh, Color.Red, DashStyle.Solid,1);
            DrawHorizontalLine("Ylow",Ylow, Color.Blue, DashStyle.Solid,1);
            DrawHorizontalLine("Yopen",Yopen, Color.Green, DashStyle.Solid,1);
            DrawHorizontalLine("Mhigh",Mhigh, Color.Red, DashStyle.Dash,1);
            DrawHorizontalLine("Mlow",Mlow,Color.Blue,DashStyle.Dash,1);
            DrawHorizontalLine("Mopen",Mopen,Color.Green,DashStyle.Dash,1);
            DrawHorizontalLine("Whigh",Whigh,Color.Red,DashStyle.DashDot,1);
            DrawHorizontalLine("Wlow",Wlow,Color.Blue,DashStyle.DashDot,1);
            DrawHorizontalLine("Wopen",Wopen,Color.Green,DashStyle.DashDot,1);
            DrawHorizontalLine("Dhigh",Dhigh,Color.Red,DashStyle.DashDotDot,1);
            DrawHorizontalLine("Dlow",Dlow,Color.Blue,DashStyle.DashDotDot,1);
            DrawHorizontalLine("Dopen",Dopen,Color.Green,DashStyle.DashDotDot,1);
             DrawHorizontalLine("Phigh",Phigh,Color.Red,DashStyle.Dot,1);
            DrawHorizontalLine("Plow",Plow,Color.Blue,DashStyle.Dot,1);
            DrawHorizontalLine("Popen",Popen,Color.Green,DashStyle.Dot,1);
            DrawText("YhighText","Years High",20,Yhigh,Color.Black);
            DrawText("YlowText","Years Low",20,Ylow,Color.Black);
            DrawText("YhighText","Years Open",20,Yopen,Color.Black);
            DrawText("MhighText","Months High",20,Mhigh,Color.Black);
            DrawText("MlowText","Months Low",20,Mlow,Color.Black);
            DrawText("MhighText","Months Open",20,Mopen,Color.Black);
            DrawText("WhighText","Weeks High",20,Whigh,Color.Black);
            DrawText("WlowText","Weeks Low",20,Wlow,Color.Black);
            DrawText("WhighText","Weeks Open",20,Wopen,Color.Black);
            DrawText("DphighText","Previous Days High",20,Phigh,Color.Black);
            DrawText("DplowText","Previous Days Low",20,Plow,Color.Black);
            DrawText("DphighText","Previous Days Open",20,Popen,Color.Black);
            DrawText("DhighText","Days High",20,Dhigh,Color.Black);
            DrawText("DlowText","Days Low",20,Dlow,Color.Black);
            DrawText("DhighText","Days Open",20,Dopen,Color.Black);

My output window shows:

0, 0
0, 0
1113.75, 0
0, 9993
0, 9993

I suppose I have Horizontal lines but not at 1113.75!

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Sleeping Troll, have you already looked at this sample here to help clarify?

http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/...ad.php?t=19176

GetBar() would return 0 if you pass in a future DateTime value.

[Sleeping Troll]

I have now, and honestly I have before...
I still am not clear on the need for use of Time[], regardless I can handle some bad values I will just test before plotting.
Thx for the help!

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

For the GetBar() you simply pass in DateTime of interest and then it returns you the interger # of bars ago this was 'true' == 'hit'.

If the DateTime you passed in is older than what;s loaded as first bar on the chart > the CurrentBar # since this fist bar is used.

If the DateTime lies in the future, you get 0 returned.

You may run into issues passing the actual DateTime in (formatting wise), so I would suggest simplifying the code as much as possible and printing the DateTime entered.

[Sleeping Troll]

It turns out, I should really learn to pay more attention to my error log!
I am getting the error:

DrawText: startBarsAgo out of valid range

I cannot figure why, I have isolated the offender to this line of code:

DrawText("YopenText","Years Open",1,Yopen,Color.Black);

Must be something simple... what am I missing?

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

You try accessing bars that are not present at the OnBarUpdate() start, please check into this link here - http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/...ead.php?t=3170