HeikenAshi indicator in new panel with original candles intact?

[dholliday]

Hi,
I wish to create an indicator similar to the standard price bar candlesticks. This indicator should appear in a separate panel leaving the original candlesticks intact.
To test:
1) Created a copy of the HeikenAshi indicator, giving it a different name.
2) Changed Overlay in the Initialize() method to false
3) Added this new indicator to my chart.
The result was that it no longer draws the original candlesticks in the main panel.
It does draw the HeikenAshi candles in the new panel.
Question: How can I leave the original candles in the main panel intact?
Thanks,
David

[koganam]

Hi,
I wish to create an indicator similar to the standard price bar candlesticks. This indicator should appear in a separate panel leaving the original candlesticks intact.
To test:
1) Created a copy of the HeikenAshi indicator, giving it a different name.
2) Changed Overlay in the Initialize() method to false
3) Added this new indicator to my chart.
The result was that it no longer draws the original candlesticks in the main panel.
It does draw the HeikenAshi candles in the new panel.
Question: How can I leave the original candles in the main panel intact?
Thanks,
David

Remove the instructions that turn the candles transparent. They are the lines that contain the "Color.Transparent" compound word.

[NinjaTrader_MichaelM]

Hello David,

Thank you for writing in. Koganam is correct, the HeikenAshi indicator just turns the regular bars transparent. The relevant code parts you will want to work with are:

if (Displacement + (CalculateOnBarClose ? 1 : 0) > 0 && CurrentBar > 0 && BarColorSeries[1] != Color.Transparent)
	InitColorSeries(); //See the InitColorSeries() method further down in the code

BarColorSeries.Set(Math.Max(0, CurrentBar + Math.Max(0, Displacement) + (CalculateOnBarClose ? 1 : 0)), Color.Transparent);
CandleOutlineColorSeries.Set(Math.Max(0, CurrentBar + Math.Max(0, Displacement) + (CalculateOnBarClose ? 1 : 0)), Color.Transparent);

Please let me know if you have any questions.

[Harry]

Hi,
I wish to create an indicator similar to the standard price bar candlesticks. This indicator should appear in a separate panel leaving the original candlesticks intact.
To test:
1) Created a copy of the HeikenAshi indicator, giving it a different name.
2) Changed Overlay in the Initialize() method to false
3) Added this new indicator to my chart.
The result was that it no longer draws the original candlesticks in the main panel.
It does draw the HeikenAshi candles in the new panel.
Question: How can I leave the original candles in the main panel intact?
Thanks,
David

You can download the anaHeikinAshi indicator at

http://lizardtrader.com

The indicator is a free download and comes open source.

Compared to the default Heikin Ashi indicator it comes with the following additional features:

-> Heikin Ashi candles are based on original formula by Dan Valcu or on a modified formula published by Sylvain Vervoort
-> additional smoothing of Heikin Ashi candles with 28 different moving averages
-> Heikin Ashi candles can be either plotted on price panel or on separate panel, default chart bars can be shown or disabled