Coloring Bars of a custom indicator

[stefy]

Hi everyone

I built a custom indicator and want to color positive bars green and nehative bars red.

I wrote the following after Initialize():
Add(new Plot(new Pen(Color.LimeGreen, 5), PlotStyle.Bar, "Up"));
Add(new Plot(new Pen(Color.Red, 5), PlotStyle.Bar, "Down"));

And after OnBarUpdate():

if( Value[0] > 0 )
BarColor = Color.LimeGreen;
elseif( Value[0] < 0 )
BarColor = Color.Red;

My plot though is always green, also for negative values. Why?

Thank you for help

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

- You don't need to add plots
- You want to check something like:

if (Close[0] > Open[0])
BarColor = Color.LimeGreen;
else
BarColor = Color.Red;

[stefy]

I took out the two lines of code to add plots, but in this way I get just a yellow line plotted (the default, I think).

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

See this tutorial for a similar concept.

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/SetUp2.html