Efficiency

[eDanny]

If given the choice of plotting a dot (data series) or drawing a dot (draw method) on every bar, which uses less memory and which is more cpu efficient? It would seem that if you had two different (alternating) color plots according to conditions, it would be be more efficient to use two different color draw objects instead of two different plots but if only using one of either, which would be the better choice? I hope the question isn't confusing.

Dan

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

If you only had a small amount of dots then using DrawDot() to achieve your dots would be better as you don't need to store a whole DataSeries worth of values. If you wanted to have dots very commonly then a DataSeries may be the better choice, but then you won't have the ability to manually move the dots.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

DataSeries is far superior in efficiency both in terms of memory and performance.