Convert ready made strategy to Indicator

[Haryh007]

Hi,
I created strategy for my automation, I need to convert this strategy to be indicator, therefor I could see when I need to enable the strategy by looking bar colour area. Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Jim]

Welcome to the forumsHaryh007,

Thanks for your post.

Indicators do not have a Position object, so you essentially would want to track a variable for when the strategy would be long/flat so that you can colorize the chart so it is visible what position the strategy would be in.

This could be recreated mostly by changing BackBrush based on the same conditions the strategy would call EnterLong() to enter and ExitLong() to exit, but since there is no Position tracking in an indicator, it would not be as easy to show what a position would be based on stop and limit order fills.

BackBrush - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...?backbrush.htm

Alternatively, you could consider colorizing in a strategy that gets applied to the Sim101 account to show what the strategy position would be with X settings. You could use OnExecutionUpdate to track when the strategy Position changes to control when drawing should be made on the chart.

OnExecutionUpdate - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...tionupdate.htm

Position - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...8/position.htm

We look forward to assisting.