Feature request on draw objects

[mmtrader]

Support,

I request to consider adding the following features in NT 7 beta upcoming updates:

• Introduce parallel line drawing feature, so that one can draw rays/lines/arrowlines parallel to others
• Enable feature to draw horizontal rays/lines/arrowlines, similar to horizontal lines.
• Ability to cut the a ray at a particular point, so that it becomes a line.

Thank you
mmtrader

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Thanks for suggestions.

On the parallel line suggestion. Can you please draw a line, select it, right click copy, right click paste.

This will paste an identical line at the same angle as the original. Is this not sufficient, if not, what would be different in your suggestion?

[mmtrader]

yes Ray, that is how I draw lines parallel (or close to parallel) right now in ninja. But I feel sometimes, I need to attach the duplicate parallel line to a bar and it won't allow to attach the duplicate line to a bar high/low. By attach I mean,start the duplicate line from a bar's high/low. If you can enable this feature, it would be helpful to draw parallel lines.

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mmtrader

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

yes Ray, that is how I draw lines parallel (or close to parallel) right now in ninja. But I feel sometimes, I need to attach the duplicate parallel line to a bar and it won't allow to attach the duplicate line to a bar high/low. By attach I mean,start the duplicate line from a bar's high/low. If you can enable this feature, it would be helpful to draw parallel lines.

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mmtrader

So moving the copied line would not work at all or is there something with that that is a roadblock?

[eDanny]

http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/vb/showthread.php?t=18427

As I suggested in this thread, the paste should occur where your pointer is located, not at some random place or on top of the copied line. The other suggestions still stand also. Thanks.

[mmtrader]

So moving the copied line would not work at all or is there something with that that is a roadblock?

Ray,

When you do the copying/moving, it appears as if the "Snap to OHLC" is disabled for the copied line. If you can enable the "Snap to OHLC" for the starting point of the copied line, it would work. please enable "snap to ohlc" only for starting point of copied line and not for the 2nd point in the copied line.

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mmtrader

[mmtrader]

Some more feature requests

Support,

Some more feature requests regarding draw objects:

• For horizontal lines, two user configurable options, 1) so that price get price marker can be enabled/disbled for horizontal lines and 2)option so that price gets printed on left side of the chart or right side of the chart.
• The global drawobjects feature is a great feature added in NT7. 1) An option so that drawobject is local to all charts in the current workspace only, may be call it "localdrawobject". 2)If there is an option to select the names of the chart within the same workspace, it would be really helpful to limit drawobjects to only those charts.
• Regarding fibonacci feature, the color of the line joining the two points should user selectable. Right now it doesn't give user the option of selecting color of the line.

Thanks
mmtrader

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Thanks for the additional feature suggestions.

[mmtrader]

Ray,

An additional draw object feature request:

• Feature to hide and unhide current draw objects on the particular chart. A "button" on top left of chart, similar to the "chartrader" button that can be turned on and off to hide and unhide the draw objects of the chart

Ray,.. any chance if some of the features requested in this thread could make it to one of the NT7 releases?

Thanks
mmtrader

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Thanks for the additional suggestion. I can't guarantee anything at this time except your suggestion for making the fib anchor points connecting line user defineable (color, width etc..) will make it into the next update.

[Truth]

I'd like to make a suggestion that might be an easy change and could greatly enhance the use of parallel lines. After making a parallel line to build a channel, it is frequently necessary, at least for me, to change the length of the copied line. In doing so, it's very easy to mistakenly make the line nonparallel.

QuoteTracker has a unique help feature for this, in that it changes the color of the line, as you're resizing it, if it becomes non parallel. It's really quite helpful.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Interesting idea, thanks for suggesting it.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

• The global drawobjects feature is a great feature added in NT7. 1) An option so that drawobject is local to all charts in the current workspace only, may be call it "localdrawobject". 2)If there is an option to select the names of the chart within the same workspace, it would be really helpful to limit drawobjects to only those charts.

mmtrader

We have introduced a property on each Data Series "Show global draw objects" which will let you control which Data Sereis on a chart would display a global draw object.

[mmtrader]

Thanks Ray. Nice feature on the selection of globaldrawobjects in dataseries.

I have one more feature request:

On Rays and lines(lines created either by F2 or F6) ,give user option to get sound alert. Like a ray/line can be double-clicked and a sound alert can be enabled in its properties and sound file can be selected. So,that when the ray/line is touched or nearer to it, it gives sound alert. This feature would be really useful.

Thanks
mmtrader

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

I agree, this would be useful feature, its on our list but it will not make it into the 1st production release of NT7.