Changing the color of bars ...

[bob100]

I am trying to figure out how to change the color of the bars at runtime based upon a calculation in my study. I cannot get it to work.

I have got this far but I could use a little help please...

  xclose[0] = (Open[0]+High[0]+Low[0]+Close[0])/4.0;
			xopen[0] = (xopen[1] + xclose[1])/2.0;
			
			if ( xclose[0] > xopen[0] ) {
				ChartControl.ChartStyle.UpColor = Color.Green;
				ChartControl.ChartStyle.DownColor = Color.Green;
			}
			else {
				ChartControl.ChartStyle.UpColor = Color.Red;
				ChartControl.ChartStyle.DownColor = Color.Red;
			}

The above code changes the colors one time and never changes them back again. As you can see I am trying to color the candles using the heiken ashi fomula, so I want the upColor and DownColor to be equal depending on the values of xclose and xopen....

Thanks for any help

[Harry]

Use BarColor

I suggest to use BarColor, for example

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

should do the trick.

[bob100]

Thank You very much Harry.

The only reason I am posting on top of your post is to add one more bit ...

I find that after coloring the bar with BarColor I need to reset the CandleOutlineColor to black because, by default, the CandleOutlineColor is set to the BarColor.

So here is what works

BarColor = Color.Lime;
CandleOutlineColor = Color.Black.

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

Bob, glad to hear you got it figured out. Harry, thank you for your assistance. Please let us know if you have any other questions.