Missing Plot Values in Market Analyzer

[Kentoes]

I have a custom indicator that has 3 plots:

AddPlot(new Stroke(Brushes.Orange, 2), PlotStyle.Dot, "Buystop");
AddPlot(new Stroke(Brushes.Tomato, 2), PlotStyle.Dot, "SellStop");
AddPlot(new Stroke(Brushes.Chocolate, 2), PlotStyle.Dot, "Shares");

I'm setting the values like this:
Value[0] = BuyPrice;
Value[1] = SellPrice;
Value[2] = Qty;

I'm trying to display these values in Market Analyzer. The only one that is working is Value[0] = BuyPrice

The other values always display 0

Print statements will show the correct numbers of Value[1] and Value[2]

What am I missing?

[fx.practic]

Hi.

Value is always the very first plot. Hence now you setting values to Buystop plot only, but 0, 1 and 2 barsAgo.

The code you need:

Values[0][0] = BuyPrice;
Values[1][0] = SellPrice;
Values[2][0] = Qty;

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello Kentoes,

Thanks for your post.

Forum member fx.practic's response is correct.

When you have one plot you can use the singular Value[0] Using Value[1] would actually be assigning a different value to the previous bar element, Value[2] the bar before that, etc.

When you have more than one plot, you can refer to the first added plot as Value[0] if you wish, however it is better practice to use the "plural" of Value which is Values[][] where the first index[] is the number of the plot (in order as shown in the State.SetDefaults) and the 2nd index is the specific bar.

Personally, I prefer to use the name of the plot as this way there is no misunderstanding of what you are assign a value to, for example:

Buystop[0] = BuyPrice;
SellStop[0] = SellPrice;
Shares[0] = Qty;

You can see an example of this in the Ninjatrader indicator "Bollinger"

[Kentoes]

Resolved. Thanks to both of you.