Charts - Drawing into the future (i.e. beyond Bar[0])

[Shansen]

NT Team,

Noting the prospect of drawing into the future on charts (i.e. beyond Bar[0]) presented some difficulties in NT7, has drawing into the future been simplified in NT8? Please advise the suggested method (or refer an example) of Drawing a line which, by example, starts at Bar[2] (startBarsAgo = 2) and projects forward 10 bars (endBarsAgo = -8?).

In NT7, I understood the simplest way to draw into the future was via overrides using DateTime parameters. These override exist in NT8.

However, where calculations are in "bars" and not DateTime what is the suggested approach? e.g endBarsAgo = -8 or via displacement mentioned in the post "Displacement is off" (http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum...ad.php?t=73772)? I note, while displacement appears in the overrides of Draw.Region() is does not appear in the overrides of Draw.Line().

Regards
Shannon

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello Shansen,

Thank you for your post.

It would be the same as it was in NinjaTrader 7, for example:

Draw.Line(this, "Tag", 10, Close[0], -10, Close[0], Brushes.Blue);

Using a negative value for the barsAgo would place it ahead of the current bar.

If you are working solely with DateTime, it would also be the same as in NinjaTrader 7.