Share New Research 
All the examples of indicator usage I've seen access indicator values by explicitly including their names. ie:
self.bb = self.BB(symbol, 20, 1, MovingAverageType.Simple, Resolution.Daily)
self.bb.UpperBand.Current.Value
self.bb.MiddleBand.Current.Value
self.bb.LowerBand.Current.ValueBut what if I have an indicator, and I'm not sure what all the variable names are? How would I discover what they are and access them? I tried this but it didn't work because everything came up as type 'str':
for prop in dir(self.bb):
# Never works, everything is a 'str' object
if isinstance(prop, IndicatorDataPoint):
self.Log('We found one! %s is an indicator value!' % prop)Thanks in advance!
Devin Curry
I found a solution! Though it seems pretty hacky. If anyone can show me a more elegant solution I'd appreciate it but I'll post my solution for now in case other people are looking for this as well.
for prop in dir(self.bb): if isinstance(getattr(self.bb, prop), IndicatorDataPoint): self.Log('We found one! self.bb.%s' % prop) else: for subprop in dir(getattr(self.bb, prop)): if isinstance(getattr(getattr(self.bb, prop), subprop), IndicatorDataPoint): self.Log('We found a sub one! self.bb.%s.%s' % (prop, subprop))The above witll print out:
We found one! self.bb.Current We found a sub one! self.bb.LowerBand.Current We found a sub one! self.bb.MiddleBand.Current We found a sub one! self.bb.StandardDeviation.Current We found a sub one! self.bb.UpperBand.CurrentÂ
Jared Broad
That is a decent solution!Â
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Devin Curry
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