Post position size on charts

[pmn100]

Hi

Before I go delving into the way to do this, I want to know if this is possible. Sometimes on lower time frames it can be quite frantic to calculate the trade position size to adhere to your money management rules. So I want to be able to calculate the pip size of a price bar, and from that, along with the current exchange rates, calculate my position size. Then print the figure out on the chart whenever the strategy throws up its signal?

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Yes you can do that. To print values onto the chart you could use DrawText() or DrawTextFixed().

[pmn100]

Yes you can do that. To print values onto the chart you could use DrawText() or DrawTextFixed().

Thanks Josh

So now I need to make a calculation based on the high, low and close value of the last bar, and then pass the result into the Drawtext function. How would I go about this?

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

For example this snippet draws the High / Low range of the last completed bar in the upper right corner of the chart -

 
protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
double myRange = High[0] - Low[0];
 
DrawTextFixed("myRangeText", myRange.ToString(), TextPosition.TopRight);
}

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[pmn100]

Thanks Bertrand

I've now set my three variables (myEntry, myStop, myPos). Is it possible to include all three of these in the string with a carriage break between them, so I have a list consisting of entry price, stop loss, position size printed on the chart?

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

pmn100,

You will have to search google for the carriage return character for C# strings. I believe it may be \r but am not certain.

So you would just do something like myRange.ToString() + "\r" + myStop... etc

[pmn100]

Thanks Josh. \n is working.

All working now.