Variable from custom Indicator

September 6th, 2014, 02:59 AM

I am trying to pull in a variable from a custom indicator in to a new strategy.

I get the error "the name "trend" does not exist in the current context.

My code is as such:

PrintWithTimeStamp("," + MyCustomIndicator(trend)[1]);

Trend is a variable, and the indicator works fine. I'm just using the print statement to debug. I will ultimately want to use an IF statement such as:

IF (MyCustomIndicator(trend)[1] == 1)
{
make me money
}

TIA!

September 7th, 2014, 05:41 AM

You need to make sure that your custom indicator has a property defined for the trend state that you are trying to access. I suppose that trend is a BoolSeries (or IntSeries). In that case you would define the property as

Code

#region Properties

[Browsable(false)]
[XmlIgnore()]		
public BoolSeries Trend
{
    get { return trend; }
}

Now you can access that property of your custom indicator in a strategy as

Code

MyCustomIndicator( .... parameters ....).Trend[0]

September 22nd, 2014, 01:28 AM

Fat Tails

You need to make sure that your custom indicator has a property defined for the trend state that you are trying to access. I suppose that trend is a BoolSeries (or IntSeries). In that case you would define the property as

Code

#region Properties

[Browsable(false)]
[XmlIgnore()]		
public BoolSeries Trend
{
    get { return trend; }
}

Now you can access that property of your custom indicator in a strategy as

Code

MyCustomIndicator( .... parameters ....).Trend[0]

Perfect - that was it! Thank you!

Variable from custom Indicator

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