how to find distance point-line

[turbofib]

hi, i want to know distance point-line..
Can somebody help me?...there is a code to do it?

[NinjaTrader_Jim]

Hello turbofib,

Thanks for opening the thread.

I do not have any example code I could share but this is certainly possible to write.

There are formulas that can be used to determine the distance from a point to a line. The shortest distance will form a perpendicular intercept to the line. You will want to find this line first, and then calculate the distance that line has between the point and where the two lines intersect.

There is a good publicly available resource for doing the math here: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/geo...int-and-a-line

I would suggest to look into converting the Price and Time/BarsAgo to pixel coordinates so then you have a common unit for the distance between the point and the line.

GetXByBarIndex() - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...bybarindex.htm

GetYByValue() - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...etybyvalue.htm

Other information for working with pixels can be found here: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...oordinates.htm