Drawing an object on the following bar?

[augustfay]

Hello I am new so bear with me. I am confused on how to apply a drawing to the next bar... is something like this not possible? Thanks.

if (Close[-1] > Close[0])

{Draw.Diamond(...

[Emma1]

try if(Close[1]>Close[0]), your code...

below is draw......
{ // Instantiates a red diamond on the current bar 1 tick below the low
Diamond myDiamond = Draw.Diamond(this, "tag1", true, 0, Low[0] - TickSize, Brushes.Red);

// Set the area fill color to Red
myDiamond.AreaBrush = Brushes.Red; }

[augustfay]

Thank you for your reply Emma, I'm not confused about how to draw the actual diamond... My issue is that I want to draw something on the bar after the current bar. Using close[1] would draw something on the previous bar, but using a negative value such as Close[-1] (for a future bar) doesn't appear to be working. I was wondering if there was a workaround this or something else that I might be missing here.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello augustfay,

Unfortunately, negative indexes are not supported.

Instead, Emma1 is suggesting that you check the previous bar once a new bar has formed to see if that previous bar was a trigger bar and if a drawing object needs to appear on this new bar.

It's not drawn in the future, its drawn the moment the new bar exists and the bar before it was a trigger bar.


Alternatively, you can custom render anything you would like on the chart within the renderable area.
The SampleCustomRender included with NinjaTrader demonstrates custom rendering.