How do I make a public value NOT display?

[gbrest]

I have a DataSeries I am passing to another program to use there and for backtesting. I defined the series in Initialize() as follows:

Add(new Plot(new Pen(Color.Transparent, 1), PlotStyle.Line, "AdxDirection"));

In the properties section I added:

[Browsable(false)]
[XmlIgnore()]
public DataSeries AdxDirection
{
get { return Values[6]; }
}

Everything works fine. I just don't want the value of AdxDirection to display in the Plots section of the indicator. I want it to be 'invisible' to everyone except the program. I tried just making AdxDirection a variable as follows:

public DataSeries AdxDirection;

...and that worked fine except I get a sereailization error when I try to save the workspace. Any ideas?

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

Hello,

When you say the plots section of the indicator, do you mean the indicator settings? Or you want to hide the plot completely from the chart/display?

If you're referring to the plots section of the indicator parameters, please add PlotsConfigurable = false; in the Initialize() section.

This cannot be configured per plot - it will disable all of the plots from being configurable

If you were speaking of the chart/display, setting the plot to transparent should hide it. Can you point me to where exactly this is displaying?

[snaphook]

Just kill (delete or comment out) the plot instruction and properties. I presume you will be storing double values. If integer, 1 = up, -1 = down?, use IntSeries or String Series if "U" and "D".

Define your DataSeries in Vars

private DataSeries adxDirectionSeries;

create it in initialize

adxDirectionSeries = new DataSeries(this);

set the value in OnBarUpdate?

adxDirectionSeries.Set(xyz);

Expose it in Properties

[Browsable(false)]
[XmlIgnore()]
[Description("ADX Whatever")]
public DataSeries AdxDirection
{
get { Update();
return adxDirectionSeries; }
}

This will create the public DataSeries w/o a plot.

[gbrest]

Snap-
GREAT answer!!! Thank you very much. You hit the nail dead on the head!!
gb