Draw a x minute SMA/SMA/WMA on another timeframe?

[ninjamouse]

Hi

Can this be done in Ninja?

I have a SMA or WMA or EMA or JMA indicator on one frame (could be tick/min/range), and I want to plot that same indicator on another frame.

For example, if I have a 50SMA indicator on a 1min chart, I want to see the 50SMA on a 5min chart, but I dont want to add a 50SMA, I want to use 50SMA coming from the 1min chart.

Dont know if you can can have a global indicator that can appear on multipul time frame?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

From a UI or indicator perspective, this is not possible in NT 6.5 or earlier however, this will be possible in NT7 or later. As a side note, this is possible in a strategy.

[ninjamouse]

Hi Ray

How does one do this as a strategy?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Hi ninjamouse, you want to check this link from our helpguide explaining the basics of MultiInstrument / MultiTime strategies - http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/H...struments.html

You can also check the 'SampleMultiTimeFrame' code as a good starting point.

[RichardTodd]

I have a SMA or WMA or EMA or JMA indicator on one frame (could be tick/min/range), and I want to plot that same indicator on another frame.

Looking around the ninjatrader forums, I see lots of people asking about this type of thing, and though it's not directly supported in 6.5, we at http://www.eotprolive.com (shameless plug, I know...) have been working around it for about a year now.

It's just a simple feature built into C# and other languages.... look at keyword "static", and you may see how it's done. You'll also need to be careful about multithreaded synchronization, and familiar with arrays and such, so it's not something a beginning programmer will be able to do.

In the end, you have a (in your example) MA indicator you put on one time in "sender" mode, then put it on the chart you want to look at in "receiver" mode. They pass the values around in a thread-safe static storage location.

I have made indicators for clients that receive values from 10 or more feeder charts with no problems, using this methodology and careful synchronization.

The only annoyance with this method is that on rare occasions the receiver chart will lose its link to the sender if you change something on the chart... you just press F5 to reset the charts and they "find" each other again.

I just thought I'd pass that along, since it looks like people are routinely told that it can't be done!

And no, I don't have a simple example code for anyone... sorry... but I lease out proprietary indicators, and protected code is the nature of the beast.