multicolor volume bars and volume bar projections... possible or not?

[Pr0crast]

1. Multicolor volume bars (i.e. black if the price bar closes up, red if the price bar closes down, purple for no chg)

2. Volume projections (5 minute bar, 2.5 minutes in = 10,000 contracts, show a shadow behind the current bar of 20,000 contracts)

Possible or not in Ninja?

I can do this in basically every other charting platform except Ninja. I'd really like to get this working in Ninja so I can consolidate to one platform. Currently I have to use Ninja/zenfire for order entry/DOM and another prog (ensign or quotetracker or tradestation or neoticker...) with IQfeed for charting, since zenfire is too proprietary to be compatible with other programs

TIA

[Pr0crast]

update: i figured out the volume color thing: http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/v...ead.php?t=3750

now just for the projected volume thing and i'll be set...

[KBJ]

For 1) see Volume Bars color-coded according to Price change.
For 2) can you post a screen shot showing what you mean?

[Pr0crast]

Certainly... Here is an example snipped from Quotetracker.



In the picture the current 5 minute bar is only half over, and the solid black volume represents actual trades while the cross-hatched area represents the projection for how many trades will occur by the close of the bar.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

On issue 2...

Yes this is possible since virtually anything is possible with NinjaScript C# etc... The approach you would need to do is have a multi-plot indicator where one of the plots represents the projected volume. Out of the box you can not do hatch mark based plots but you could assign it a different color. Check out the code for the system BuySellVolume indicator to get an idea on how you would need to manage multiple plots.

[Lost Trader]

Here is a stab at the Volume with colored bars & PRV. It even appears to work during Market replay (very important for me). The PRV is plotted first, as we want it underneath the Volume. However, if
PaintPriceMarkers = true; then the PRV number is on TOP of the Volume number -- this is bad. Seems illogical that it would be opposite of the plots themselves.

Can PaintPriceMarkers and DisplayInDataBox be enabled/disabled individually for specific variables?

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Originally Posted by Lost Trader

Can PaintPriceMarkers and DisplayInDataBox be enabled/disabled individually for specific variables?

Unfortunately not.

[Lost Trader]

Originally Posted by NinjaTrader_Ray

Unfortunately not.

OK, I understand. In that case, I have to request that price display be in the same order as the plot display and not reversed, please. I'd call that a bug.

Explicitly, in this example, since Volume is plotted on TOP of PRV, then the Price marker for Volume should be on TOP of the PRV price marker...

Thanks!!
(and Merry Christmas!!)

[Pr0crast]

Hi Lost Trader,

Nice work! Looking forward to using this in the new year.

Merry xmas,
Pr0crast