Full/Solid Bars vs Empty Bars

[shortorlong]

I'd like to set bars as filled-in/solid and others as empty. I'm using NT 6.5 .. What is the API for this? I see Barcolor, but how can I control fill-type in my ninjascript indicator?

Thanks

[shortorlong]

What I want to do is have some green outline bars (no fill), some green filled bars, some red outline bars, and some red fill bars.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hello Shortorlong,

This should be possible, as long as you define the conditions for all the different color combinations you're after.

BarColor applies to the fill color. Version 7 recently introduces CandleOutlineColor as a new property you can set.

You'd define your conditions, and then assign BarColor and CandleOutline within. If you want empty bars, you can assign color transparent.

if (someCondition)
{
BarColor = Color.Green;
CandleOutlineColor = Color.Green;
}

if (anotherCondition)
{
BarColor = Color.Transparent;
CandleOutlineColor = Color.Green;
}

[shortorlong]

Hi Ryan, that's perfect. I will see what I can manage in 6.5 using that info.

[shortorlong]

Yeah, unfortunately setting Color to transparent or white in 6.5 colors the wicks as well. So the whole bar is completely transparent / invisible / 'missing'.

It's interesting because on chart properties i can set 'up bar color' to white, and have the outline as black, and achieve the effect, but I can't control it in an indicator, hm.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Yes, this is true. Unfortunately may need to move to 7 to program this. This information is available in chart properties but no supported way of defining up / down colors.

As a hint - look at the code for HeikenAshi indicator. Although unsupported, there are some chart control properties that may help you out.