Vertical Line

[LunaKai]

OK, this one seems like it should be pretty easy/obvious, but it's not.

Created a basic strategy in Strategy Builder to draw a vertical line on a 5-minute chart wherever the close was higher than the open. (This was just for testing, because I haven't been able to get the vertical line to work on anything and figured I'd start out with the most basic conditions)

It draws one vertical line, on the most recent bar that meets the criteria, and that's it. Every single other drawing object will draw on every bar that meets the criteria as far back as the bars go.

What's wrong here? This is Strategy Builder syntax, unmodified:

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
if (BarsInProgress != 0)
return;

if (CurrentBars[0] < 0)
return;

// Set 1
if (Close[0] > Open[0])
{
Draw.VerticalLine(this, @"VerticalLine Vertical line_1", 0, Brushes.Lime, DashStyleHelper.Solid, 2);
}

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello LunaKai,

That is because of the tag you used. You need to click in the tag field and click Set to bring up the string builder window. In that window you can type in the string you have, in the following field click Set and then choose Misc -> CurrentBar. That will make unique tags so you aren't updating 1 object each time the condition is true.

[LunaKai]

That did it. I'd been using ArrowDown and so forth from other Strategy examples and they were working just fine...now I know that's because they modified each bar's tag.

Thanks much!