OnBarUpdate() - never seems to be called?

[altrader]

In my strategy the OnBarUpdate method seems to never be called (I have some lines of code in there to print text to the output window so I can see what's happening). The indicators appear on the chart but nothing else seems to happen.

How can I debug this? I don't understand why it's never being called and I don't know how to start stepping through the code to see why it's never been called? It compiles correctly.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

a) are you talking about a custom indicator or a custom strategy?
b) how does "The indicators appear on the chart" relate?
c) are there any funny messages in the logs?

[altrader]

This is a custom strategy.
I add some indicators to the chart in the initialize method, so I can see that part is working ... it just never seems to get into OnBarUpdate after that.
I'm sure I checked the log screen and didn't see any strange messages. However .. have just looked in the files contained in C:\EMC\NinjaTrader 6.5\log and see the following 09/03/2008 17:35:22|3|128|Failed to call method 'Initialize' for strategy 'TestStrategy': 'Bars' property can not be accessed from within 'Initialize' method.

But I did see the indicators on the chart ... and they're in the initialize method.

Sorry, this is my first foray into NT - Apologies if I have made a schoolboy error somewhere?

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

You can not access the "Bars" property in the Initialize method of your strategy.

[altrader]

As far as I'm aware I'm not trying to access the Bars property in my initialize method.
The only thing that I see is Add(PeriodType.Minute, 60); //BarsArray[1]
but BarsArray is commented out?

I can't test this at the moment but when I can is there anyway I can find out what line of code is causing this problem?

thanks

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

This is a good starting point for debugging: http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/v...ead.php?t=3418