Any way to highlight or shadow a candle?

[ErikY]

I have certain scenarios that I want to be able to highlight or shadow a candle to make it stand out as a part of an indicator. I have been using different drawings like rectangle to get the job done but its not giving me the effect I am looking for. Any other ways to do this that anyone can think of or has used successfully?

[NT-Roland]

Hi ErikY,
Did you already try one of the following if your respective condition set is true?
Drawing -> Set background color -> Back brush -> Color of your choice?
Drawing -> Set bar color -> Bar brush -> Color of your choice?
NT-Roland

[ErikY]

Hi NT-Roland, I did not try anything like that. I will play around with that and see if it works. Thank you

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello ErikY,

This inquiry is in the Indicator Development section of the forums. Are you making an indicator?

You can set the CandleOutlineBrush to set the outline around a candle.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/candleoutlinebrush.htm

You can set the BarBrush to set the color of the candle.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/barbrush.htm

[ErikY]

Hi Chelsea, Yes, I am making an indicator. I am going to play around with candle outline brush and see if this gets what I am after. Thanks

[ErikY]

New question on this, I kind of like what the outline brush is doing, but I would like to make the width much thicker to make it really pop out.

The CandleOutlineBrushes[0] can be set to a brush, but I can't figure out if I can make it a custom brush with a set color and a set width. Any way to do this?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello ErikY,

It's not guaranteed to change, but you can trying change the stroke width and brush of ChartBars.Properties.ChartStyle.Stroke (outline) or .Stroke2(wick).
https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...properties.htm

[ErikY]

Thanks Chelsea, is that on a bar by bar basis, or is that for the entire series of bars?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello ErikY,

This changes the entire chart bars series. There is no equivalent of CandleOutlineBrushes for the outline style width. It would be necessary to create a custom chart style at that point.

[ErikY]

Chelsea, is there any documentation you can point me to for custom chart styles?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello ErikY,

There is some documentation in the help guide.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/chart_style.htm

The chart styles included with NinjaTrader are also open source and you can use these as examples.