Algo bars are an innovative feature that allows you to write your own alerts and signals, without coding, compiling, etc.
Below, you can see one set of example conditions for a signal
The chart marker option places the text in the Signal name field onto the chart as a native Ninjatrader test object (for interaction with third-party tools), above or below the bar, as set in the options.
At the time of writing this document, the following variable names are supported
CLOSE
DELTA
DELTARANK
VOLRANK
HASIMBALANCEUP (returns 1 or 0)
HASIMBALANCEDN (returns 1 or 0)
MAXDELTAATPRICE
DELTAIMBALANCEPERCENT
VOLUME
HIGH
LOW
OPEN
COTDELTAHIGH
COTDELTALOW
VPOC (Added in the October ’24 release)
HIGH[x]LOW[x]OPEN[x]CLOSE[x]VOLUME[x]DELTA[x]DELTARANK[x]VOLRANK[x]VPOC[x]
Currently supported comparison operators are
>
<
>=
<=
!=
==
Comparison conditions must consist of 3 or more parts (depending on the comparison).
A variable name or other value, a comparison operator, and a variable name or value.
There must be 1 (or more) spaces between the condition parts.
More than 1 term can be joined with either ‘&&’ or ‘||’ (AND or, OR), for example, ‘CLOSE > OPEN && CLOSE > VPOC’
Parentheses are not currently supported.
This list has been updated since it was originally written with newly supported terms from new releases.