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On Calling Ninjascript Indicators Efficiently

Posted on August 18th, 2009
Written by Richard
Posted in: N/A (old archives)

I’ve put out RWT-004 on the best-of page. This one is about how slow and redundant the typical Ninjatrader idiom for referencing indicators can be:

SMA(Close,5)[0] > SMA(Close,5)[1]

In one case, an apparent bug in ninja’s magical “don’t touch this” area broke code I had written in this fashion. The paper describes the issue, and tells how I now do all of my indicator references in ninjascript.

Here’s a direct link to the paper if you are too lazy to look in the list: RWT-004

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