Tick volume indicator

[Mindset]

Has anyone been able to produce a tick volume indicator (histogram)?
I can produce a tick counter which gives a text display but I have no idea how to write this info at bar close to a text file and then read it back so that I can get a historical type display.

I found this somewhere and just manipulated it a little.

public override void Plot(Graphics graphics, Rectangle bounds, double min, double max)
{
	if (Bars == null)
		return;
// Recalculate the proper string size should the chart control object font and axis color change
if (textBrush.Color != ChartControl.AxisColor || textFont != ChartControl.Font)
			{
textBrush.Color = ChartControl.AxisColor;
textFont = ChartControl.Font;

SizeF size = graphics.MeasureString((CountDown ? "Ticks remaining = %" : "Tick count = %") + Bars.Period.Value, textFont);
textWidth		= size.Width + 5;
textHeight		= size.Height + 5;

SizeF noTickSize = graphics.MeasureString("Tick Counter interval", textFont);
noTickTextWidth = noTickSize.Width + 5;
noTickTextHeight = noTickSize.Height + 5;
			}

// Plot the tick count message to the lower right hand corner of the chart
if (Bars.Period.Id == PeriodType.Tick)
			{
double tickCount = ShowPercent ? CountDown ? (1 - Bars.PercentComplete) * 100 : Bars.PercentComplete * 100 : CountDown ? Bars.Period.Value - Bars.TickCount : Bars.TickCount;
graphics.DrawString((CountDown ? " Ticks remaining = " + tickCount : "Tick count = " + tickCount) + (ShowPercent ? "%" : ""), ChartControl.Font, textBrush, bounds.X + bounds.Width - textWidth, bounds.Y + bounds.Height - textHeight, stringFormat);
			}
			else
graphics.DrawString(Bars.TickCount.ToString(), ChartControl.Font, textBrush, bounds.X + bounds.Width - noTickTextWidth, bounds.Y + bounds.Height - noTickTextHeight, stringFormat);
		}

I am really only interested in "today" so I assume I could use streamwriter but it just got confusing ...

Any help much appreciated.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Mindset,

Unfortunately the Plot() method is beyond the level of support I can offer. For your original question, you could use StreamWriter and write out lines that include your volume and the timestamp. Then when you load the indicator it just cycles through all the lines of your StreamWriter and matches the output based on timestamp written in file vs timestamp on chart.

[bnolen1]

any luck on this mindset?

[Mindset]

tick

Wow that's an old post - sorry I moved on from that - but it looks like I didn't solve it.