Undocumented/Unsupported Ninja Tips and Tricks

[koganam]

I want to have a 'dashboard' display on my chart panel 1 with some indicator info in it -- kind of like how the Data Box works, only fixed in the upper right of the chart.

I am trying the "documented" features to do this without much success. I attached a screen shot of what I am looking for. But what I would like it to be able to change fonts and colors inside this 'box' in the upper right from my indicator code... which does not seem possible using this syntax:

            #region Draw info panel
            string panelText = "|                   Test                       |" + "\n| ATR: value\n| EMA: value\n| Daily High: value\n| Etc...";
            DrawTextFixed("InfoPanel", panelText, TextPosition.TopRight,Color.Black, new Font("Ariel", 8, FontStyle.Regular), Color.Transparent, Color.LightGray, 10);
            #endregion

Is there an undocumented way to place a dashboard panel like this onto a chart and be able to control how it looks with fonts, colors, formatting, etc?

Thanks!
Bryan

Custom Plot using DrawString(). Look at the CustomPlotSample.cs file for ideas on how.

[cassb]

Thanks, Leroy. But what I am looking for is to be able to change individual text within this dashboard to different colors/fonts. Like, for example, if the ATR value exceeds a certain limit, I might want to change the value to red.

So I think I really need some kind of graphics object that I can construct in the program and then display on the chart panel on each bar update. It's just that I believe this would be an undocumented thing and I don't have an example of something like this to look at and learn from.

Thanks!
Bryan

[ldissinger]

Well....then you just look at those values and change the color when you draw it.

Changing individual parts of that dashboard with the single DrawTextFixed is not possible...you'd have to do something like that with individual lines and know where you are drawing.....You'd have to override the Plot method where you can get the graphics object.

Drawing text is easy...but getting the coordinates right is something you are going to have to work at if you haven't much experience with Windows programming.

Leroy

[elitetradernyc]

Options order

Hey guys, just wondering if anyone has tried something like this. I need to sign onto IB and submit an options order from inside NT C#, has anyone tried this? NT does not support options orders.

[funk101]

Changing the X Axis width...

I need to expand the width of the X Axis. Can anyone suggest how this might be done?

[ldissinger]

Are you asking you to make the bars bigger? Smaller? You want to see more bars or less bars or something else entirely?

[funk101]

I'm painting my own bars, basically rectangles with information. Similar to volume footprint bars. In order for them to space correctly, the X Axis, it seems, needs to be wider so my rectangles when painted don't display on top of each other. Hope that helps.

[JerryWar]

Controlling manual order thru ATM Strategy

I would like to be able to manually place an order on the Super Dom with a selected ATM Strategy but then have an ATM script takeover to manage the stops and targets. I don't see anyway with the ATM Strategy methods to get the order ID and or Strategy ID to take control of these.

Does anyone know of an unsupported way around this.

Thanks for any input.

Jerry

[bluelou]

Connecting to SQL or other database

I'm looking to have an NT7 strategy read parameter values from either a MySQL or PostgresSQL database. Also, I may want to write values from NT7 to a database at some point.

Questions:
Is there anything in NT7 that will prevent or cause problems with a strategy reading/writing to a database?

Are there any known instances of NT users deploying databases to read/write values?

[rouckya]

Hello, how to access programmatically to initial colors of the DataSeries ?

That is to say, I don't waynt to repaint bars using CandleOutlineColor or BarColor, I just want to retrieve the colors set from the DataSeries field of the chart as shown here on my screenshot.



Thanks for your help

[koganam]

Hello, how to access programmatically to initial colors of the DataSeries ?

That is to say, I don't waynt to repaint bars using CandleOutlineColor or BarColor, I just want to retrieve the colors set from the DataSeries field of the chart as shown here on my screenshot.

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Thanks for your help

Answered that one here.

ref: http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...hybrid&t=39499

Remember: no official NT support for ChartControl matters.

[liberty4all]

Have you ever wanted to load a workspace from within a strategy or when you start a certain strategy? Now you can. Just drop this line in your initialize() and change to your liking.

NinjaTrader.Gui.WorkspaceOptions.SwitchWorkspace("D:\\Documents and Settings\\User\\My Documents\\NinjaTrader 6.5\\workspaces\\123.xml", true);

If anyone is interested, you can use a similar technique to "auto-save" your workspace throughout the day.

From an indicator running on a chart in a particular workspace, is there any way to detect which workspace the chart/indicator is running in?

[wingman]

undocumented serialization

Hi,

I would like the user of my indicator to choose a set of indicator input series. Something like what you have for each indicator / parameters / data / input series.

I believe this is a serialization problem.And ninja support team already answered it cannot help.

I do something like:

private IndicatorBase inputIndicator1;
..

[XmlIgnore()]
[Description("Indicator 1 input data")]
[Category("Parameters")]
[Gui.Design.DisplayName("Indicator 1")]
public NinjaTrader.Indicator.IndicatorBase InputIndicator1 {
get { return inputIndicator1; }
set { inputIndicator1 = value; }
}

and this is where I need to add the serialization of the input. But it seem to be undocumented.

Any idea ?

Thank you

W.

[neoikon]

NinjaTrader.Gui.WorkspaceOptions.SwitchWorkspace(" D:\\Documents and Settings\\User\\My Documents\\NinjaTrader 6.5\\workspaces\\123.xml", true);

Does anyone know a list of other classes such as this "WorkspaceOptions" ? I would love access to more!

Thank you,
Daniel

[Trader_55]

From an indicator running on a chart in a particular workspace, is there any way to detect which workspace the chart/indicator is running in?

Nobody from NT ever replied to this. Is there some way to detect the workspace that a chart/indicator is in from C# code?