Opening 30 min. bar breakout strategy

[fhege]

I would like a strategy based on a one tick breakout above or below the first daily session 30 min. bar high and low for a long and short trade respectively. I do not know how to structure this. Could someone please show me how or where I could get this strategy? Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM]

Hello fhege,

Welcome to the NinjaTrader forums!

Yes, we have a sample available for this. You can download from here and import into your NinjaTrader installation:

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...ead.php?t=3223

[smegey]

Hi

Im new to Ninjatrader, understand markets well but just now trying to get a better grasp of implementing 'custom' stategies like the one you have kindly provided.

I have downloaded this strategy, opened it in the custom strategies tool and saved it as a ninjascript strategy. Unfortunately, when i use the strategy analyzer, I cannot select it from the list of dropdown strategies. I can however see it on the left hand side folder view when expanding 'strategies'. I have not modified the code in any way. Just trying to test out anythint to understand the product further.

I have provided a screenshot.

Thanks for your time!

[NinjaTrader_RyanM]

Hi smegey,

Thanks for the post and welcome to the NinjaTrader forums. You should not have to manually open this file and place in strategy folder To bring this into your platform, you can use File > Utilities > Import NinjaScript > Select the zip file.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...nt7/import.htm

[smegey]

Thanks so much RyanM. Ill give this a shot when i next get in front of my trade computer.

[c4matted]

Not sure if this is the correct place to post such a question but I am wondering if anyone knows how to change this strategy a little so that the range of the 30 minute candle excludes the wicks? Only trades the breakout of the body of the candle. Could anyone help?
Thank You

[NinjaTrader_RyanM]

Hello c4matted,

Thanks for the post and welcome to the NinjaTrader forums! If you want to exclude wicks for your breakout strategy, you would have to work with Open and Close instead of High and Low. To find which is higher/lower for Open and Close there are methods Math.Min() and Math.Max().

[c4matted]

Ryan,
I appreciate the information. Definitely something I am interested in. Would you know of any documentation or the best way for someone that is new to Ninjatrader to start building an automated strategy or a strategy for backtesting? Is there tools within Ninjatrader to help me modify the current breakout strategy? Thank You again

[NinjaTrader_RyanM]

Yes, you can build from existing samples and is a good way to get familiar with acceptable code syntax. For an introduction to strategy development in NinjaTrader, please see following link:
http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...nt_process.htm

To make copies of any existing strategies: Right Click in editor > Save as and provide a new name.

[GeoOrtiz]

Hi All,

I'm new to NinjaTrader and this is my first post on the forum. Please have patience with me.

I have a question about the Bars.FirstBarOfSession function. When dealing with the ES, which practically trades around the clock, does the system consider the start of the session the 9:30 USA market open? Is the overnight session ignored?

Thank you in advance for your responses!

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello GeoOrtiz,
Welcome to the forum and I am happy to assist you.

It would depend on the session template you are using. If you are using an RTH session template then only the FirstBarOfSession will return the bar number @ 9:30.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...on_manager.htm

[koganam]

Originally Posted by c4matted

Not sure if this is the correct place to post such a question but I am wondering if anyone knows how to change this strategy a little so that the range of the 30 minute candle excludes the wicks? Only trades the breakout of the body of the candle. Could anyone help?
Thank You

Replace the trigger, High[0], with Math.Max(Open[0], Close[0]) and Low[0] with Math.Min(Open[0], Close[0]).

[GeoOrtiz]

Hi All,

I downloaded and ran this sample strategy on one day (01/17/13) on ES, but it is calculating the wrong highest high of the first 30 min of trading. Am I running the backtest incorrectly?

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello GeoOrtiz,
If you set the Min bars required to 0, or better backtest the strategy with 2 days or more data then are you getting the correct fills.

[GeoOrtiz]

Thank you Joydeep. That did the trick.