Will NT7 allow for "future" bars plotting?

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

I will have someone reply to you on Monday. Thank you for your patience.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Wessel,

Consider you are using a tick chart. Tick bars close at uneven intervals. One bar may close 1min after the previous bar and another may close 5mins after the previous. Because of this behavior there is no way we can just say draw a dot on the future bar because we have no idea where the future bar is going to be. Since we do not know where the future bar is going to be the only way to draw into the future is to draw on an exact time and this is what is available in NT7.

[Wessel]

Thanks Josh
Ok I get that now,

Any simple example how to do that? I am stucked with the plot array that has the last bar on [0] and since it is not possible to do a [-1] I am kinda clueless how to proceed from here.

Some back ground, I am plotting on my chart a dot on the point where the MACD Histogram is reversing direction based on the close of the previous bar.
That will give me an the last bar the price for tomorrow at which the MACD will change direction. I want to have this dot plotted on the spot of the next future bar.
I shifted the plot, but that erases the value of the last dot that is shifted into the future ( see other post about this ).
I attached a picture for an example what I am trying to archive

It's done in trade station. Clicking on the dot will give the actual value of this future dot.
Doing in Ninja trader a shift of the chart will not allow you to click on the future dot and read the correct value of this dot. It reports the value of the previous dot. I asked if this is a bug but this was by design ( see other post )
So :-) Still trying to get a dot plotted in the future that has it's own value if I move my mouse over it.


Many thanks for your help

Wessel

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Wessel,

All of the draw objects now have DateTime signatures you can use instead of bar indexes.

For example, DrawDot().

DrawDot(string tag, bool autoScale, int barsAgo, double y, Color color)
DrawDot(string tag, bool autoScale, DateTime time, double y, Color color)


DrawDot("someTag", true, new DateTime(2010, 3, 15, 12, 30, 0), Close[0], Color.Blue);

[Wessel]

Ok,

Thanks Josh, you where just to quick i just compiled a message with an example ( see quote below or the message before your reply ) . From what I see your example might solve it.

Wessel

Thanks Josh
Ok I get that now,

Any simple example how to do that? I am stucked with the plot array that has the last bar on [0] and since it is not possible to do a [-1] I am kinda clueless how to proceed from here.

Some back ground, I am plotting on my chart a dot on the point where the MACD Histogram is reversing direction based on the close of the previous bar.
That will give me an the last bar the price for tomorrow at which the MACD will change direction. I want to have this dot plotted on the spot of the next future bar.
I shifted the plot, but that erases the value of the last dot that is shifted into the future ( see other post about this ).
I attached a picture for an example what I am trying to archive
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It's done in trade station. Clicking on the dot will give the actual value of this future dot.
Doing in Ninja trader a shift of the chart will not allow you to click on the future dot and read the correct value of this dot. It reports the value of the previous dot. I asked if this is a bug but this was by design ( see other post )
So :-) Still trying to get a dot plotted in the future that has it's own value if I move my mouse over it.


Many thanks for your help

Wessel

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Wessel,

Dots drawn in the future should be movable once you switch the Locked property of it to false.