Current day OHL

[dwbstreet]

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Greetings,

I am using a hidden 24x5 data series to show the midnight open of NQ (neither here, nor there).

Just wondered if there is a way to modify the default NT8 indicator to only show the current day, not show every day prior as well?

[dwbstreet]

Just to clarify, I am aware that I can add an additional hidden data series with a "Days to Load" of 1 to accomplish this (link the indicator to this data series)... but this seems like an unnecessary use of cpu resources. Thanks in advance if anyone can assist.

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello dwbstreet,

Thanks for your notes.

To clarify, are you wanting to program your own custom indicator or are you looking for an existing solution using the NinjaTrader Current Day OHL indicator?

The Current Day OHL indicator that comes with NinjaTrader would plot the current day OHL values on the chart for each day, not only for the current day.

The solution you provided would be the correct workaround for accomplishing this with the Current Day OHL indicator that comes with NinjaTrader.

[dwbstreet]

Thanks so much for your response Brandon.

Was wanting to program my own custom indicator that referenced midnight EST and only plotted 1 "Days to Load," so I do not have to have any additional data series.

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello dwbstreet,

Thanks for your notes.

You would need to add some filtering logic to prevent a value for an indicator's dataseries to be set. Since NT sessions can only be defined within a calendar day, you could try doing something like:

if (Time[0].Date == DateTime.Now.Date)
Values[0][0] = CurrentDayOHL().CurrentOpen[0];

Where Values[0][0] is the first plot added to the script and CurrentDayOHL().CurrentOpen[0] is the CurrentDayOHL CurrentOpen plot value being assigned to the plot.

The above code would only assign a value to the plot from midnight to the current bar on the current session so the plot would only appear on the current day.