Custom indicator disappears during live trading

[FredYellow]

Hi all,

I'm starting to try live trading with my startegy which has up to now only been backtested.
I have a custom indicator and a custom analyzer which both run fine during backtesting, however now I'm trying to run the same strat live (using the ccxtbt store for Binance) and this is what happens:

class customIndicator(bt.Indicator):
     	lines = ('someLine')	
     	params = (('dataClose', 		0))
     	plotlines = dict(someLine =    dict(_name='someLine', 	color='green',  linewidth = 1, 	alpha=0.9))		
     	def __init__(self):
     			self.l.someLine = ...

     class customAnalyzer(Analyzer):    
     	def __init__(self):    
     		self.var 			= 0                         
     	def start(self):
     		pass
     	def next(self):												
     		if (self.strategy.customIndicator.l.someLine[0] > 10):	
     			self.var += 1										
     		...
     	def stop(self):
     		...
     	def get_analysis(self):
     		return dict(var = self.var) 

Obviously I simplified the example code to it's essence.
This is the error I get:

  File "...main.py", line 221, in next
    if (self.strategy.customIndicator.l.someLine[0] > 10):
  File "...\lib\site-packages\backtrader\lineseries.py", line 461, in __getattr__
    return getattr(self.lines, name)
AttributeError: 'Lines_LineSeries_LineIterator_DataAccessor_Strateg' object has no attribute 'customIndicator'

So for some reason the customIndicator has not yet been initialised, but the

def next(self):

In the analyzer is already being called. Is this normal? Why is this different during Live trading than backtesting?

Kind regards,
Fred

[FredYellow]

Apparantly I had simply forgotten to add the strategy when live trading using

cerebro.addstrategy(    TestStrategy)

This also meant none of the indicators were initialized...

Hope this helps someone!