DrawOnPricePanel is Not working

[zacharydw00]

Using NT 7...20
What could cause DrawOnPricePanel to not work in this ind., but work in others. Below is a portion of the ind. code. Attached is the complete ind. code. The image shows that the Line & Arrow, highlighted in the code below, are not drawing on the price panel. What might the issue be? Thanks.

if ( IndSwHi1 > IndSwHi0
&& IndSwHi1*deltaIndicator >= Ind1 && PriceSwHi1 <= C1-deltaPrice) //Checks Divergence 2nd Sw Hi back
{
int BarAgo1 = CurrentBar-BarNumSwHi1;
DrawOnPricePanel = true;
DrawLine("PHline2"+CurrentBar.ToString(), true, BarAgo1, PriceSwHi1+(TickSize*MDF), 1, C1+(TickSize*MDF), divergenceColor, DSD, DLW);
DrawArrowDown("ArrowDn"+CurrentBar.ToString(),true ,0,High[0]+TickSize+(TickSize*MDF),Color.Red);
DrawOnPricePanel = false;
DrawLine("IHline2"+CurrentBar.ToString(), true, BarAgo1, IndSwHi1, 1, Ind1, divergenceColor, DSD, DLW);
}

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

zacharydw00, thanks for reporting in - we'll look into the issue shortly and get back to you.

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Would you mind creating an export which includes the swing Gap method, so I can give it a run here?

Also: please set DrawOnPricePanel from the Initialize() and recheck please.

Thanks

[zacharydw00]

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Also: please set DrawOnPricePanel from the Initialize() and recheck please.
Thanks

I did have DrawOnPricePanel=True in the Initialize() section(as I read in another post), but it did not solve the problem. However, I did add DrawOnPricePanel as the first line in OnBarUpdate() as shown below, and that solved the problem.

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
DrawOnPricePanel = true;

BUT, this morning as the chart was running, the problem occurred again. So I added DrawOnPricePanel=True back into the Initialize() section and now it's working again. This seams to be an intermittent problem.

If the problem occurs again, I will post a screen shot. In the mean time, I've uploaded the code and maybe you can recreate the problem. Thanks.

[zacharydw00]

The problem occurred again while the chart was running, but opening the indicator list window and clicking OK to refresh the ind. corrected the problem.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

zacharydw00,

DrawOnPricePanel is not a dynamic setting. You should only set it once in Initialize() and not call it at all in OnBarUpdate(). Trying to switch it true/false multiple times will not work. You have the option to either have all draw objects on the price panel or all draw objects on the indicator panel.

[zacharydw00]

Could you add DrawOnPricePanel as a dynamic setting? Using it as a dynamic setting worked fine in NT 6.5. Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

zacharydw00,

Thanks for your suggestions here. I will forward to our development team.

[koganam]

zacharydw00,

DrawOnPricePanel is not a dynamic setting. You should only set it once in Initialize() and not call it at all in OnBarUpdate(). Trying to switch it true/false multiple times will not work. You have the option to either have all draw objects on the price panel or all draw objects on the indicator panel.

That is a strange answer. We used it dynamically all the time on NT6.5, so that we could draw arrows on the price chart to align with signals on the indicator.

In my experience, when this was behaving flaky on NT7.0.0.20, I found that the setting is dynamic if it is set to true in Initialize(), and seems to not be dynamic if set to false in Initialize().

To say the least this is inconsistent behavior. In any case, not being able to draw on which panel one wishes just seems to be a bad idea all around.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Setting it dynamic could work out in 6.5, but was never really officially supported unfortunately - it should be set in Initialize() and then not changed 'on the fly' in OnBarUpdate(). If you need different settings, we would advise using a separate indicator for this purpose then.