Simplest Way to Determine the Slope of an Indicator and Color Code as Green or Red?

[aguison]

Dear NT8 Indicator Forum,

I am just starting learning Ninjascript and successfully code a few indicators. My next one is color coding my Stochastics indicator (%D to be specific) - if %D is rising I want to color it Green and if %D is falling I want to color the line Red.

If I didn't have the benefit of asking this Forum, my defacto would be a simple compare of 2 points, e.g., to check for rising %D[0] > %D[1] and vice versa for falling %D[0] < %D[1]. Thinkorswim has a simple check "if rising...." or "if falling" and you're done.

Is there a standard way of checking slope? Also I wanted my indicator to have more sophistication, e.g., how do tell if market is consolidating? I would paint a different color for that scenario, although this would be Part 2 of this activity.

If anyone has a snippet to help in this post, kindly paste here.

Thanks in advance!

[ajgauss13]

Hello brother Please contact me i can help you make them in color thanks

[ajgauss13]

you can use this one
if(D[0] > D[1] )
PlotBrushes[0][0] = Brushes.Green
else
PlotBrushes[0][0] = Brushes.Red

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello aguison,

To know if the price is rising or falling you can use the methods IsRising and IsFalling, that is essentially the same as the code posted in #3 of this thread, based on that output you could color a bar or make a drawing. If you wanted to determine the slope using a value you can also use the Slope function

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

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

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

[aguison]

oh man! ajgaus13 and Jesse: Thank you so much! Here's what the Indicator looks like: Stochastics %D is now colored based on plot conditions: