Fancy Rectangle

[pdavidow]

I would like to have a default semi-opaque rectangle display with a height say of 5 ticks (auto-scale) on the chart.
The rectangle would actually be a horizontal band that always goes from one side of the chart to the other.
The band would snap to the horizontal tick lines. I would have the ability to reposition this band vertically, ideally with keyboard up/down keys (in combo w/ Ctrl or Alt or something).

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hello pdavidow,

You can manually apply drawing objects to charts, such as a rectangle. More information can be found at the link below.

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

Unfortunately the functionalities you describe are not supported. I will forward it to our development team and ask them if they can add this to the list of future considerations for the software.

Thank you for your feedback.

[tjendra]

Hello pdavidow,

You can manually apply drawing objects to charts, such as a rectangle. More information can be found at the link below.

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

Unfortunately the functionalities you describe are not supported. I will forward it to our development team and ask them if they can add this to the list of future considerations for the software.

Thank you for your feedback.

I tried to create an indicator to overlay a rectangle over the last 200 bar and high (800) and low (0) of the ^TICK index with the following code:

protectedoverridevoid OnBarUpdate()
{
DrawRectangle("Rec1", 200, 0,0, 800, Color.Blue, Color.Blue, 2);
}

Not sure why the rectangle doesn't display. Do I need to initialize it or something? Attach a picture of what I am trying to achieve. Can anybody help? Thanks!

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hello tjendra,

I believe the blue section in the attached screenshot is the rectangle.

[tjendra]

I drew that rectangle manually to depict what I want to achieve.
That was not drawn by the indicator.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

tjendra,

Please see your Control Center logs. You should have an error there. With your current code you need at least 200 bars before you can call it or else it will throw an error. You can either add a check to ensure you have 200 bars or you can change your draw routine to just draw to the beginning of the chart.

Option A: Beginning of OnBarUpdate()

if (CurrentBar < 200)
     return;

Option B:

DrawRectangle("Rec1", [B][COLOR=Red]CurrentBar[/COLOR][/B], 0, 0, 800, Color.Blue, Color.Blue, 2);

[tjendra]

It worked now. Thanks for your help Josh!

[tjendra]

Josh,

If I want to draw the rectangle over an indicator rather than the data value (attach example), how should I modify the functions below?

DrawRectangle("Rec1", CurrentBar, 50, 0, 100, Color.Blue, Color.Blue, 2);
DrawRectangle("Rec2", CurrentBar, 0, 0, 50, Color.Red, Color.Red, 2);

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

In Initialize() please add DrawOnPricePanel = false.

[tjendra]

Thanks Josh, it worked prefectly now.