DrawText() in white space

[cmt_Robert]

Greetings!

I'm determined to clean up my charts and as part of that I want to have labels for horizontal lines which my strategy draws appear in white space (i.e. not obscured by bars). I have now set up my default chart with a right margin of 150 pixels (Chart Properties | Right Side Margin) so I have my white space available.

My question is, how can I use DrawText to access that space?

For example: my strategy has created a line which shows my entry price. I'd like it to be labelled as "Entry=100.99". Currently, I'm using the following code:

DrawText(stub + "Text",true,"Entry=" + value,0,value,10,Color.Black,new Font("Arial",12),StringAlignment.Far,Color.Transpa rent,Color.Transparent,0);

This puts the text 10 bars back, but inevitably it is buried in other bars or markings.

How can I move that to the RIGHT of the current bar (and into the margin that I have created expressly for that purpose)?

Thanks as always.

[koganam]

Greetings!

I'm determined to clean up my charts and as part of that I want to have labels for horizontal lines which my strategy draws appear in white space (i.e. not obscured by bars). I have now set up my default chart with a right margin of 150 pixels (Chart Properties | Right Side Margin) so I have my white space available.

My question is, how can I use DrawText to access that space?

For example: my strategy has created a line which shows my entry price. I'd like it to be labelled as "Entry=100.99". Currently, I'm using the following code:

DrawText(stub + "Text",true,"Entry=" + value,0,value,10,Color.Black,new Font("Arial",12),StringAlignment.Far,Color.Transpa rent,Color.Transparent,0);

This puts the text 10 bars back, but inevitably it is buried in other bars or markings.

How can I move that to the RIGHT of the current bar (and into the margin that I have created expressly for that purpose)?

Thanks as always.

Use a negative index for the barsAgo parameter. You may also want to use StringAlignment.Near instead of StringAlignment.Far.

[cmt_Robert]

So intuitive...and yet I never thought to try it! Thank you!!