Plot Lines

[gooph]

Hello,
Can someone help me with setting up an indicator to do the following.
-Plot 2 horizontal lines - both an overnight high and overnight low (in between market close and open)
-Plot 2 horizontal lines - first hour high and a first hour low (first hour the market is open)
-Plot two more Horizontal user defined lines.

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

I recommend giving it a try in our strategy wizard:

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/Overview41.html

If you get stuck provide us with a screen shot of your set up and we will assist.

[gooph]

Am I looking for a strategy or indicator?

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

You will need to build this as a strategy, but instead of orders you will use drawings. I recommend going through the tutorials first.

[gooph]

So this is my attempt at drawing the high between 630 and 730pst. How would I adjust this so that only 1 line is drawn for that time period.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

You may need to unlock your code and change the signal name of the horizontal line. You don't want it to be a unique name. You just want one line that updates so you want to pass in one name.

DrawHorizontalLine("My horizontal line", High[0], Color.Blue);

Notice the removal of the + CurrentBar part.

[gaatr]

Plot Lines NT vs Esig

I am trying to do a similar thing, I want lines to be drawn for entries and exits on my strategy. I have attached a sample from esignal -

Problem - How to draw a horizontal line that continues until price crosses it.

In NT Indicator - When you draw Horizontal Line, the line only lasts for that specific tick/bar - and you have to draw it again for subsequent bars. This poses the problem, when you are using the same name for the bar in a loop etc.

Is this even possible on an indicator, or do you have to use a strategy to accomplish this.

Thanks in advance.

Simon

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

gaatr,

It is possible. I suggest you just use a plot with a style of dash. Then just set the plot to take the value you want for each bar. If you keep setting it to the same value it will end up drawing a horizontal line segment.

Alternatively you may want to use DrawLine() or any of the other draw methods available to you. Play around with it. See what works for you. You do not need a strategy to do chart plotting.

[gaatr]

Plot Lines

Thanks Josh. I will play around with it, thanks for the quick response.