AddDataSeries() with "Equidistant bar spacing" feature

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello rafaelcoisa,

The crosshair would not be involved with drawing objects at all..
This is showing the bar times of the bars on the chart.

Your stating that the crosshair time is not reflecting the time of the data series bars on the chart that the cursor is hovering over?

[rafaelcoisa]

NinjaTrader_ChelseaB
Not the time of the data series bar. The time of the vertical line.
And I want to know if I can somehow fix this.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello rafaelcoisa,

How is the crosshair value wrong? This should only be showing the bar close times.

Just to try and confirm again, the crosshairs are not correlating to the bar close times on the chart?

The crosshairs do not show the times of drawing objects. These correlate to the bar close times.

[rafaelcoisa]

Here we go.
"The crosshairs do not show the times of drawing objects. These correlate to the bar close times."

That's what I've been talking about from the beginning.
Is there any way to show the time of drawing objects in a Tick Chart (in the time scale with the crosshair) ?
This is why I was looking for the "Equidistant bar spacing" feature.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello rafaelcoisa,

No, there is not a way to have the crosshairs correlate to drawing objects. These are showing the bar times only.

I will submit a feature request on your behalf for the development team to consider this.

[rafaelcoisa]

There was a post from 2019. This one:

https://forum.ninjatrader.com/forum/suggestions-and-feedback/suggestions-and-feedback-aa/1059255-feature-request-arbitrary-compression-of-horizontal-scale

I think it is about this problem of the time scale.
It seems to me I could work around this without the "Equidistant bar spacing" but creating a ChartStyle.

Do you know some ChartStyle with this feature?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello rafaelcoisa,

The ChartStyle would change how bars are rendered on the chart visibly but would not change the bar slots (bar timestamps), or the time shown for the crosshairs.
You could use a ChartStyle to change the visibility of rendered bars on the chart (or render a chart any way you would like).

I am not quite sure what feature you are referring to.
Are you wanting a chart style that renders drawing object time stamps directly on the chart? (I'm not aware of a chart style that does this)

You do have the option to use an indicator to just render text on the chart with the time of a drawing object as the text. You could render this at the bottom of the chart.

[rafaelcoisa]

I'm really thinking simple, here.
Just by intuition, when you open a chart with time axis, not just a trading chart, and you have a crosshair, you always think that if you hover over something, especially a vertical line, the time shown on the timescale is the time of the object below the mouse pointer. With "Equidistant Bar Spacing" active, this simple intuition is present (a transparent time chart overlaid on a tick chart).
It is this simple intuition that I would like to have in my chart. So I thought maybe I could turn on the "Equidistant Bar Spacing" via an indicator with secondary data series. And finally I thought maybe there is a ChartStyle that preserves this simple intuition. But, there's no way to activate the "Equidistant Bar Spacing" via indicator, and there is no ChartStyle with that as you explained.

[rafaelcoisa]

Hey NinjaTrader_ChelseaB,

What do you mean by "You can render this at the bottom of the chart"?
Are you saying that I could "anchor" the drawings to the chart panel? Something like "on top of the timescale", and would the crosshairs show the drawing time?

[rafaelcoisa]

Visually, I'm talking about this:


(a transparent time chart is overlaid on a tick chart).

Note the time scale.
The crosshair is working exactly the way our intuition expects.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello rafaelcoisa,

In an indicator in OnRender() you could draw text on the chart from all of the objects in the DrawObjects collection to show the time of the drawing object at the bottom of the chart. This way you could see the time on them.

You could absolutely add a second data series manually to the chart and set the colors to transparent to add bar data information for the crosshair to reference. This wouldn't show the time of drawing objects, but if you added a 1 minute series you could see what minute the drawing object occurred in.

[rafaelcoisa]

Understood.
Thanks

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello rafaelcoisa,

This request is being tracked with ID # SFT-5999.

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