Drawing Hollow Candlesticks

[DenMan]

I would like to create an indicator whose sole function is to draw hollow candlesticks that are outlined with green for up-bars, and outlined with red for down-bars. This seems so simple, yet I can’t seem to get it to work, for the bar colors set by the Data Series don’t get changed. Can you help me get on track?

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello DenMan,
Thanks for writing in and I am happy to assist you.
Please try the following code

if (Close[0] >= Open[0])
	CandleOutlineColorSeries[0] = Color.Green;
else CandleOutlineColorSeries[0] = Color.Red;
				
BarColorSeries[0] = Color.Transparent;

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?barcolorseries.htm

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?candleoutlinecolorseries.htm

Please let me know if I can assist you any further.

[DenMan]

Your solution worked great. Thanks for the simple solution!

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello DenMan,
Glad it worked for you.
Please let me know if I can assist you any further.

[DenMan]

Color Bars Indicator

One further question. When I include this indicator in my workspace, it puts it in a new panel. Is there code to always include this in the Data Series panel, or do I have to manually change that when the indicator is included?

[koganam]

One further question. When I include this indicator in my workspace, it puts it in a new panel. Is there code to always include this in the Data Series panel, or do I have to manually change that when the indicator is included?

Overlay = true;

ref: http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...ml?overlay.htm

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello,
Thanks koganam for the code snippet.

DenMan you can use the code as suggested by koganam.

Please let me know if I can assist you any further.

[luxurious_04]

Hollow bar of plotstyle

Is anyone here knows how to make the plotstyle bar solid to plotstyel bar hollow?

[NinjaTrader_CodyB]

Hello,
NinjaTrader_JoyDeep's example would accomplish this within by creating an indicator that uses the example:

if (Close[0] >= Open[0])
	CandleOutlineColorSeries[0] = Color.Green;
else CandleOutlineColorSeries[0] = Color.Red;
				
BarColorSeries[0] = Color.Transparent;

[luxurious_04]

That is not what I mean to make a hollow. I know already how to make the price bars to hollow bars. What I want is the plot style of a plot series. For example I have a dataseries name VOL so to plot the values of it is VOL.set(1023.50); and I have set the plotstyle to be a solid bar . I want to make the plotstyle of VOL to a hollow bars instead of a solid bars.

[eDanny]

One way would be to make a custom volume indicator with two bar plots and set the first one to match the chart background color and a slightly smaller size than the second. The problem with this is that the top of the bar will have no outline.

[luxurious_04]

I think that's good idea to try out. Thanks eDanny.