Plot ema ahead of candle

[Christopher Leggit]

Hello i am wanting to plot my ema ahead of the closing candle.

example.
if this makes sense a candle spikes to the high the following candle closes low.
Where the ema spiked on the chart is inbetween the two candles not on the candles.

how can i achieve this?

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello Christopher Leggit,

Thanks for your post.

A plot would only be able to be plotted up to the currently forming bar.

If you set the indicator's Calculate mode to Calculate.OnBarClose the indicator plot will be displayed up to the most recently closed candle since the OnBarUpdate() logic would be processing only at the close of a bar.

If you set the indicator's Calculate mode to Calculate.OnPriceChange or Calculate.OnEachTick the indicator plot will be displayed on the currently forming bar since the OnBarUpdate() logic would be processing intrabar.

The Calculate property could be set in the Indicators window when adding the indicator to a chart or in the indicator's code in State.SetDefaults.

See this help guide page for more information about Calculate: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help.../calculate.htm

[Christopher Leggit]

I saw this indicator in a live trading room. The ema was moving with the candle as it was happening so it was calculating on each tick. But it was plotting the ema just infront of the candle it was quite obvious because you could see the ema spike inbetween the candles as the next candle opened

[eDanny]

Set a displacement value in your Visual section of Parameters.

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello Christopher Leggit,

Thanks for your notes.

eDanny is correct, you could add displacement to the indicator in the 'Visual' section of the Indicators Properties.

Adding displacement to the indicator would cause the indicator to plot past the currently forming bar.

See the 'How to edit and Indicator's parameters' section of this help guide page for more information: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...indicators.htm

[Christopher Leggit]

Thankyou eDanny that was all it was