1 minute coding advice will save my sanity

June 28th, 2011, 04:35 PM

Hi Coders,

Can you save my fragile mind from meltdown?

I use the ZigZag indi in NT7 in my trading system but need to tweak it. Simply enough I thought, but it has me stumped.

I want to see the previous end points for each leg of the zigzag before its fixes and starts a search for the next leg. I have made the change to the ZigZag UTC version (see attached chart, in green the ZigZag UTC line, the purple dots are the 'repainted' previous endpoints, blue line is the ZigZag indi I'm trying to tweak.).

I'm only only my 812th reading of 'C# for Dummies' so am lacking a bit in the coding department

If any kind-hearted coders happen to be riding by, any advice would be gratefully received.

Thanks in advance,
Mokodo

June 30th, 2011, 03:17 AM

It looks like you're trying to find a prior low or high. To do this, I made the lo and hi DataSeries public, so that I could get hold of them. You could then find the prior lows ...

ZigZagUTC( show, span, useHiLo, zigZagColor ).lo[0] ... 1st low

ZigZagUTC( show, span, useHiLo, zigZagColor ).lo[1] ... 2nd low

Don't know if this helps ...

June 30th, 2011, 05:05 AM

Hi kandlekid,

Thanks for the post. I have actually already made this amendment to the UTC version. My problem is how to achieve the same result with the ZigZag indi that ships with Ninjatrader. But you are right in indentifying what I want to do - see the previous endpoints of each leg after the leg repaints.

Thanks in advance if you can help me out.

1 minute coding advice will save my sanity

Discussion in NinjaTrader

1 minute coding advice will save my sanity