How to display chart marker, in a fixed place.

[Stock]

Guys, can someone tell me how to display the marker arrow, let's say arrow up, on the top, in the specified place in the charts when a certain condition is true, without reference to the bar and the Y-axis? For example, not as in DrawArrowUp ("tag1", true, 0, Low [0] - TickSize, Color.Red), similarly with DrawTextFixed.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello Stock,

Thank you for your post and welcome to the NinjaTrader Support Forum!

The best example of custom plotting can be found by going to your NinjaTrader Control Center > Tools > Edit NinjaScript > Indicator > CustomPlotSample > OK.

The methods used within this sample can be used to create your own custom plots at fixed regions on the chart if you wish.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

[Stock]

Hello Patrick H. Thanks for quick answer. I'm going thru as you advised, but seems to me i don't have such sample. Can you tell me where can I get this sample?

[Stock]

Sorry, I just found.

[Stock]

I looked through the example and as far as I understand it, this method allows to only draw a rectangle or a text, right? How can I to draw a specific object such as an arrow up or a dot? Can you advise any method to use in order to drow exactly chart marker?

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello Stock,

Thank you for your response.

You can use DrawTextFixed and use the Wingdings3 font and the character 'h' for an up arrow.

For a dot you can use any font that you wish and either '.' or '*' for the dot. Unfortunately, there is no DrawArrowFixed or DrawDotFixed method in NinjaScript.

Please let me know if I may be of further assistance.

[koganam]

I looked through the example and as far as I understand it, this method allows to only draw a rectangle or a text, right? How can I to draw a specific object such as an arrow up or a dot? Can you advise any method to use in order to drow exactly chart marker?

Use DrawString(), and any symbol font that has the kind of object that you want to draw. Wingdings font has quite a few symbols, or you can always download a font that has the exact symbol that you want.

If you do not know what character represents the symbol, you can always use the default Windows System Tool called Character Map to copy and paste it into your indicator method.

[Stock]

Thank you, Patrick H.

[Stock]

Thank you, koganam! I'll try.

[Stock]

Thanks guys, this works great!!!