DrawText in Strategy

[ATI user]

I am not sure why it would not show up for you as it shows up on my end. Perhaps try reinstalling .NET?

I am running .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

is that the correct version?

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

That version should be fine.

[ATI user]

Josh, Dierk

This is interesting

I exported 32 bit protected from desktop and imported to my laptop...remotesoft worked fine.

I forgot to create my atmstrategy for my strategy and therefore got the typical error message.

The interesting part is that Text now plotted from my strat on the chart.

I then created the atmstrategy and ran the strat....no text on chart this time, only horizontal line

And now, of course, I got the error message from trying to place an order using atmstrategycreate.....i.e. that Dierk has fixed for beta 4....re BarDisplayText error

Conclusion: unable to draw text on chart from strat is directly related to same issue

to reproduce: put the DrawText line in SampleAtmStrategy.....run it without creating the atmstrategytemplate....text will draw... then create the atmstrategytemplate and text will not draw and you should get the BarsDisplayText error

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BTW....neither laptop nor desktop will run my strat on a second chart....only minute charts

[ATI user]

correction

beta 3 on my laptop XP does draw the text with the atm template in place

and the same strat on one of my user's Windows 7 machine it draws the text also

so problem is only on my Vista machine

all 3 machines are using .NET 3.5 and zenfire

will try to re-install .net on my desktop

[jdfagan]

If you mean plots, that would be the StrategyPlot reference sample. Though that was always more of a workaround with limitations. Strategies are generally not meant for plotting. If you want to plot you should use an indicator.

Josh,

I made heavy use of StrategyPlot with 6.5 due to some data I needed plotting that is intimately tied with calculations specific to a strategy - not really indicator material.

I'm going thru the list of Code-Breaking Changes for NT 7 and was wondering about StrategyPlot's use of DataSeries since a couple of issues regarding DataSeries is mentioned in changes, notably:

* default of 256 lookback
* calling DataSeries.Set() before accessing a DataSeries value on a bar

Does StrategyPlot need any alteration do you think with regard to how it uses DataSeries for it to work comparably to how it did in 6.5? I didn't notice any .Set method calls in StrategyPlot so was concerned about that.

Thanks for any pointers..

JD

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

JD,

I imagine you should be able to get it to perform the same.

The .Sets for the StrategyPlot are seen here:
StrategyPlot(0).Value.Set(High[0]);
StrategyPlot(1).Value.Set(Highs[1][0]);