BackColor & alerts based on orders entered

[arbuthnot]

Hi - a short time ago, you kindly showed me how to code strategies using rising/falling conditions and EnterShortStopLimit to enter trades. This is working very well. Thank you.

What I would like to be able to do now is have a chart which places one color on the chart (using 'BackColor') for when long trades are in progress and another color for short trades.

Is this possible and I'd be very grateful for your explanation as to how to proceed.

Moreover, would it be possible to have alerts sound, i.e. sound files I could make or choose (besides the usual "order entered", etc.) whenever trades are entered?

Roughly, the coding looks like this:

if (Rising(...) == true)
{
EnterLongStopLimit(0, true, 1, Close[0] + 10 * TickSize, Close[0] + 10 * TickSize, "BuyStop");

if (Falling(...) == true)
{
EnterShortStopLimit(0, true, 1, Close[0] - 10 * TickSize, Close[0] - 10 * TickSize, "SellStop");

Many thanks in advance.

Arbuthnot

[NinjaTrader_Cameron]

Hello Arbuthnot,

Thank you for your note.

You could create a separate if statement to check when you are long and color the background accordingly.

if (Position.MarketPosition == MarketPosition.Long)
{
BackColor = Color.PaleGreen;
}

This example will check your MarketPosition and then the following action will be to change the background color.

MarketPosition

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?marketposition.htm

BackColor()

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?backcolor.htm

[arbuthnot]

That's great, Cameron. I've done as you suggested and the trades show up perfectly.

Much obliged.