how to paint specific bars

[d.allen101]

What property or static method allows me to color specific bars? For example if I wanted to color bars 0, 3 and 8...

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

There's unfortunately no specific method for this, you would need to work with CurrentBar and BarColor for this.

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

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

[moflaherty]

Painting Specific Bars

Can you add this to the wishlist? I am hitting this too. I have logic that determines a bar needs colorized much later than the current bar I am on, so I would like to colorize a bar in the past. Thanks!

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

I will send your suggestion to our development department for consideration, thanks!

[Dope63]

Anyway to color the background of the chart during a certain time frame? Say like 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM EST and bars outside this time would have the regular background color?

[moflaherty]

BackColor by Time

Yes; you can check the time of each bar. I typically convert my times into a number; there might be a better way, but this seems to work for me:

DateTime now = Time[0];
 
string minute = now.Minute.ToString();
if (minute.Length == 1)
     minute = "0" + minute;
int time = int.Parse(now.Hour.ToString() + minute);
 
// too early!
if (time < 820)
{
     BackColor = Color.Red;
 }

I hope this helps!

[VTtrader]

See if this works for you. I use it to color the overnight session. you can adjust the times you want to use, or modify it to change colors.

VT

[Dope63]

That's great! Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

What property or static method allows me to color specific bars? For example if I wanted to color bars 0, 3 and 8...

This is supported in NT7.