HeikenAshi Bar Color

[Randwulf]

What's the trick to changing a HeikenAshi bar color in a strategy ?

I've tried HeikenAshi().BarColor = Color.Black but, the indicator colors remain...

Thank you in advance for any suggestions

[NinjaTrader_MichaelM]

Hello Randwulf,

Thank you for writing in. The Heiken Ashi is not configured by default to be able to change the bar color programatically. You can however accomplish this using code. Please follow the steps below:
1) Navigate to Tools -> Edit NinjaScript -> Indicator -> HeikenAshi
2) Right Click in the code editor and select Save As.
3) Save it as "CustomHeikenAshi" and press OK.
4) Scroll down to line 112 and delete it.

[Gui.Design.DisplayNameAttribute("Down color")]

5) Change the next line from:

[Category("Visual")]

to the following:

[GridCategory("Parameters")]

6) Scroll down to line 132 and delete it.

[Gui.Design.DisplayNameAttribute("Up color")]

7) Change the next line from:

[Category("Visual")]

to the following:

[GridCategory("Parameters")]

8) Press F5 on your keyboard to compile the new code
9) Then close the code editor and switch to your strategy code.
10) You would use the following code in your strategy to add a HeikenAshi indicator with different colored bars:

Add(CustomHeikenAshi(Color.Crimson, Color.LightYellow)); //First color for down bars, then color for up bars.

Please let me know if I may be of further assistance.

[Randwulf]

Thx 4 the reply Michael.
I appreciate the time that you took to complete the reply and I will keep the code in mind for future reference.
However, I simply wanted to change the color of a few bars that were in chop and leave my default DarkRed & DarkGreen active.
After finding no way programmatically to change a few bars, I simply tried having the strategy draw wide, colored lines from HeikenAshi().HAOpen to HeikenAshi().HAClose...
Much to my surprise, the bars look just like the bar color was changed.
I also coded the strategy Z-Order to ensure that the lines would always be on top.

Thx again for your support.

[NinjaTrader_MichaelM]

Hello Randwulf,

Thank you for the update. I am glad to hear you were able to find a solution and thank you for updating the forums in case any other users run into similar issues.

Please let us know if we may be of further assistance anytime.