Indicator Development

[trader1512]

a couple of questions.

1) is it more efficient to run multiple indicators or to create one combined. example, i have a simple indicator that paints bars a color if a condition is met and one that sets an alert if a different condition is met. currently i run them as one indicator.

2) is there any problem with creating a strategy with the wizard and then converting it to an indicator. i change strategy everywhere in the code to indicator and remove the wizard region. it seems to work fine.

thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Hi trader1512, both approaches are fine - some methods are not available in the indicator base class, but then the compiler would notify you - for creating your conditions the wizard is ideally suited. You could also always view the code with NT7 and then copy over as needed to have the framework created by our indicator wizard.

[trader1512]

strategy wizard works fine

the method works pretty well. all i have to do is copy from the strategy folder to the indicator folder and then do a global rename of strategy to indicator and it executes perfectly. great tool.

how do i setup/modify the data and visual components to different defaults. auto scale to false v true, panel, etc? in the program code not the indicator box of the chart.

is there a reason custom wave files will not work?

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Are you custom wav files of the PCM type? Then they should work normally.

You could unfortunately not set the panel directly, however the Overlay and AutoScale properties are available in the Initialize() - http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...t7/overlay.htm

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/autoscale.htm