Can anyone help with HeikenAshi coding?

[stockcik]

I want HeikenAshi turn green enter long
HeikenAshi turn red enter short
Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_JessicaP]

Hello stockcik, and thank you for your question.

There are a few ways to accomplish this. Probably the easiest is to create a new indicator that wraps the built-in HeikenAshi indicator and changes its plot colors. To accomplish this, you will first need to make a copy of your HeikenAshi indicator called HeikenAshiCopy, and change the word "private" to the word "public" in the copy.

[FONT=Courier New]        [B]private [/B]Color           barColorDown         = Color.Red;
        [B]private [/B]Color           barColorUp           = Color.Lime;
        [B]private [/B]Color           shadowColor          = Color.Black;[/FONT]

When you are done, those should be

[FONT=Courier New]        [B]public [/B]Color           barColorDown         = Color.Red;
        [B]public [/B]Color           barColorUp           = Color.Lime;
        [B]public [/B]Color           shadowColor          = Color.Black;[/FONT]

This will let you modify HeikenAshi's colors.

Finally, let's make a new strategy. Let's call this "ColorHeiken". You can add this code in your variables and Initialize sections, respectively, to use your copy in your strategy.

[FONT=Courier New]#region Variables
// Wizard generated variables
// User defined variables (add any user defined variables below)
private HeikenAshiCopy myHeikenAshi;
Color origDown, origUp, origShadow, enterLongColor, enterShortColor;

protected override void Initialize()
{
    Add((myHeikenAshi = HeikenAshiCopy()));
    origDown = Color.DarkRed;
    origUp = Color.ForestGreen;
    origShadow = Color.Black;
    enterLongColor = Color.Red;
    enterShortColor = Color.Lime;

    CalculateOnBarClose = true;
}[/FONT]

Finally we can add this to your strategy's OnBarUpdate :

[FONT=Courier New]        protected override void OnBarUpdate()
        {
            switch(Position.MarketPosition)
            {
                case MarketPosition.Long :
                    myHeikenAshi.barColorDown = enterLongColor;
                    myHeikenAshi.barColorUp   = enterLongColor;
                    break;
                default :
                    myHeikenAshi.BarColorDown = origDown;
                    myHeikenAshi.BarColorUp   = origUp;
                    myHeikenAshi.shadowColor  = origShadow;
                    break;
            }

            // your strategy code here
        }[/FONT]

You will want to extend this so that it works for a short position as well. I will leave that as an exercise to you.

Please let us know if there are any other ways we can help.

[stockcik]

Thanks Jessica, but I still can't make it since I am a real newbie in coding.
is there a NinjaScript I can download?

[NinjaTrader_JessicaP]

Hello stockchik,

You may want to try your luck in the file sharing section of the forums. I am providing a search link.

http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/local_links_search.php?action=show&literal=1&search=heiken-ashi&desc=1