Modificate Bar Timer Hybrid indicator to use it as regular alarm

Desktop SDK - Indicators
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Hello guys,

my goal is to have an indicator, where i get the last second of an bar to make an alert combined with a strategy, fires when the bar closes.

The in ninjatrader included BarTime Counter cannot be accessed by the Alerts Condition for indicators.

So i searched an already modified one. I found the BarTimerHybrid indicator, which is quite good:

In Alerts you can use the indicator as condition:

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BUT the Numeric value seems not to work. I tried several values and expressions equal, less etc.

Nothing works - no Alarm.

I think the reason is, that the indicator does not plots out a numeric value? I tried to change some variables, but i do not get it.

Maybe someone here has an idea what to do or what to change, that this works out.

Thank you very much

Trib

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Hi I am the author - I am not sure if you could use this in a strategy as it’s really just a utility to assist with time stuff. You could certainly flash the panel or emit a sound alert at 1 second before the end of the bar - that’s the core design principle - but in my experience you’re better setting it at say 3-5 seconds to give you time to react, etc.. By the way there is a version 9 out which is way better IMHO :grin: I will try and post it here but otherwise it’s in NexusFi dot com.

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Hello Mindset,

thank you for your response. Maybe it is possible to plot an extra int out with just a number such as 50 instead of a string 00:00:50?

Sadly, i am not a programmer, so i cannot find the codeline, where to edit it. Maybe you can help me out?

This would be great

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yes that’s possible but in real time getting say the last second of a bar is fraught with difficulty. racing conditions. Gaps, large orders etc all can mean the last second ‘disappears’. but let me see what i can do for you

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This would be phantastic. With this it is possible to have an alarm near closing Bars. I think many others would like that too.

Thank you for your support

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I tried it myself in the editor, but when i try to change the string into int, it does not work. I always get an error. I do not have the skills for that i think :relieved_face: