Printing Text on chart

[fawzanalim]

Hi, with the help of you guys, I created my first strategy. In my strategy, I have a risk management section, where I print the risk of a running trade. Which kind of look like this:

Draw.TextFixed(this, "Risk", "Total Risk: $" + RiskCash.ToString(), TextPosition.BottomRight);

The problem is that it only shows the last value of "RiskCash" variable. What I want to do is, I want to hover over the chart and want to check the value of "RiskCash" at any point. I could put it inside of databox as a hidden plot, but it would be more helpful if I could put it here. Is this possible?

[NinjaTrader_Kate]

Hello fawzanalim,

Thank you for your post.

This would be possible with custom rendering. The attached example subscribes to a mouse hover event and uses ChartBars.GetBarIdxByX to get a BarIndex.

That BarIndex is then used with a Series<double> and GetValueAt to draw that series value using DrawTextLayout in OnRender. We would recommend this over using Draw.TextFixed in the mouse event for performance reasons.

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