Problem adding Plot to Strategy

[brooksrimes]

I want to add plots to strategies so that after a backtest, if I click the "Charts" tab, I can see the indicator plotted.

The first line of line works fine. It is the MACD line, 1 of 3 parts of the MACD indicator.

The second line of code is the MACD average, also a line and part 2 of 3 of the MACD indicator.

NT7 doesn't like the syntax on this line. How do I fix it?

Thx.

MACD(12, 26, 9).Plots[0].Pen.Color = Color.Blue;
MACD(12, 26, 9).Avg.Plots[0].Pen.Color = Color.Orange; // gives error CS1061

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hello Brooksrimes,

What you have to do is add the indicator, and then all plots of the indicator will be included.

Add(MACD(12, 26, 9));

You can set a specific color by referencing the plot index for that indicator. You would have to open up the MACD indicator to see that AVG is the second plot, or 1 index. Statement below sets this line to orange.

MACD(12, 26, 9).Plots[1].Pen.Color = Color.Orange;

[brooksrimes]

Thanks Ryan, that's helpful.

I was reading the docs on the Add statement and it sounded like it was more like it was needed if you were going to refer to that indicator in code. So the Add causes the MACD to plot just by itself? And the Plots is only needed if you want to change one of the attributes/properties?

How would I code it to omit the histogram part of MACD and plot just the MACD and its Average line?

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

The add statement is only used for strategy plots. You can access indicator values in the strategies OnBarUpdate() without having to add the indicator.

Correct. Add() will add the indicator including all associated plots. The Plots statements are then used to define specific attributes.

If you didn't want to plot the histogram, you could set the color attribute for histogram plot as transparent.

Add(MACD(12, 26, 9));
MACD(12, 26, 9).Plots[2].Pen.Color = Color.Transparent;