NinjaScript is beating me

January 13th, 2011, 09:14 PM

Hi all,

I'm new here and have been working for the last few days on a strategy off a custom indicator. On Monday I had zero experience programming and now I think I actually have less somehow. I was just about to shoot myself till I thought I would ask here for some help.

I have a strategy based off the strategy walkthrough that Mike put up and when I used the code it is absolutely fraught with errors. I won't cut and paste the entire thing in here but if someone is looking at this and sees a problem please help me out.

[Description("")]
[GridCategory("Parameters")]
public bool BE2
{
get { return be2; }
set { be2 = value; }
}
#endregion
}
}

This piece of code returns three { or ; expected errors alone.

Additionally there are 128 lines of code in the strategy and in the error box there are errors preventing me from compiling on lines 133 through 150. I would fix them if only they existed.

Thanks in advance

if (Code = Fixed) return;
else kill self;

January 13th, 2011, 09:45 PM

Code

if (Code = Fixed) return;
else kill self;

Watch that if statement. The single '=' assigns value 'Fixed' to variable 'Code'. To compare them for equilty you need to use '=='.

Also, the name of the 'kill self' method needs to be contiguous ie 'kill_self' or 'killSelf', and if there are no overrides it would be 'killSelf()'.

I prefer the AskForHelp() or HaveABeerAndThinkAboutIt() methods personally...

January 13th, 2011, 09:48 PM

Without posting the file, no one can help you. Your snippet is not enough. You also need to specify what version of NT you are using.

Mike

January 13th, 2011, 09:55 PM

Sorry about that but I appreciate any help. I'll attach the file to this post.

Thank you in advance.

I'm using NT7

January 13th, 2011, 09:58 PM

The code looks fine.

The problem is somewhere else most likely. I don't use NT anymore, so am only eyeballing it.

Post a screen shot of the compilation errors (the bottom of the page with all the error messages). Make sure you expand (widen) the columns so we can see everything. It should be telling you the filename of the problem script.

Mike

January 13th, 2011, 10:04 PM

Hmmm now that you bring it up the errors seems to be in a file I am not using. Here is the screen

January 13th, 2011, 10:06 PM

jtradr

Hmmm now that you bring it up the errors seems to be in a file I am not using. Here is the screen

I've done this a few times

Start by deleting the strategy "MyMoneyMakerLearn". You may have to delete it using Windows Explorer from your Documents/NinjaTrader/bin/custom/strategy directory.

Then recompile. If there is still an error, you need to widen the "Error" column, because we can't see the full error message on the top error (duplicate namespace).

Mike

January 13th, 2011, 10:11 PM

Code

EntryHandling = EntryHandling.UniqueEntires;

Is the wrong syntax or needs to be in the Initialize() method.

January 13th, 2011, 10:13 PM

That helped immensely but now there are two and one is so long I can't fit the thing in the window, hopefully you can get the jist.

And just in case the first error is in BigMikeHelp.cs the file I just made for you
and the second is mycustomstrategy.cs also not in use.

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