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FootPrint Chart for NT8

Updates 7/14/2016:
- complied on NT8b12, may not work in earlier versions
- thanks to Sim22 for some great code modifications to make the chart more stable and kill some bugs

This is a standard footprint chart that shows bid/ask market orders or volume/delta bars. It doesn't have a lot of the bells and whistles that some other (paid) versions have, but I find it sufficient for my needs.

Candlestick bars can be shown to the left of the footprint bars and/or as an outline in the footprint bar. It also allows to indicate the close and high volume bars in the footprint.

If you find any bugs or have any enhancement suggestions, please PM me.

NOTES:

You must turn on Tick Replay otherwise the chart will not show historical bar values. Charts that do not support Tick Replay (Renko for example) will not work. Line charts will also not show the footprint bars.

Charts with a high Days to Load value (15+) will take more time to initially load as there's a lot of values to historically calculate before the chart can be displayed.

I suggest using a fixed width font (Consolas, Lucida, etc.) for the Bar Font as the numbers line up and makes the chart more readable.

There's no easy to way that I found to auto scale the bar width and spacing based on the font size, so these are manual adjustments via Bar Spacing and Bar Width. Bar Spacing controls the spacing between the bars and Bar Width controls how wide the bars are. If you change the font from the default Consolas 12px, you may need to increase or decrease these values to adjust the bars.

The chart will attempt to auto scale to compress the footprint bars so there's little to no spacing between the bars. The scaling is based on the chart window size, so if you size the window small, it may not look great if there's a lot of bars on the chart. If you don't like the auto scaling, you can turn it off in the indicator properties via Visual->Auto scale.

Credits: The OnMarketData algorithm to calculate volume values was taken from the 'bid ask for ninja8' indicator by @zohar.

Category NinjaTrader 8 Indicators and More

Details: FootPrint Chart for NT8
Category: NinjaTrader 8 Indicators and More

July 5th, 2016
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Comments/ratings

saschja1 November 12th, 2016 10:55 AM

Great piece of programming, thanks.

bobc635 November 14th, 2016 09:19 PM

This is a MUST for me....Thanks

DanielTrader November 15th, 2016 06:15 PM

It is working very well, It was a problem with my Ninja Trader, sorry and thank you.

nathan58 December 26th, 2016 11:25 AM

Hello Poncho,

first of all, thank you very much for the great job you have done with your FootPrint indicator for ninjatrader 8.
I like your indicator very much it is suitable for my personal configuration. I would like to ask you if there is the possibility to disable the delta numbers (bid/ask) on the right of each candle. I saw there is the function to show (or not) total Delta, but there is not the function to show (or not) footprint bar, is there a way to add this option?
Thank you very mucht for your attention,

Sincerly

Nathan

Bobi January 27th, 2017 11:00 AM

Thank you!

seedworker February 10th, 2017 02:27 PM

Awesome Job!!!!!

bcomas February 16th, 2017 08:00 PM

Thanks!!

bankable March 11th, 2017 06:57 PM

Great work on the chart but I do have a question. At the bottom of my NT chart the delta bars barely show, is there a way to increase the value of the delta bars height? I did change the font size in the delta bar but the size of the bar didn't change.

Greg White

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Apollo March 12th, 2017 10:48 AM

When you increase the indicator's font size, the delta bars are cut off. I'd appreciate a fix in the next update.
Other than that, great indicator.

GeorgeW March 15th, 2017 06:50 AM

Hello,
I'm getting the following error when I try to import this indicator, any ideas what the problem is?

Error compiling import assembly: c:\Users\GW\Documents\NinjaTrader 8\tmp\Import\Files\bin\Custom\Indicators\Poncho\FootprintChart.cs(134,32) : error CS0029: Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Drawing.Brush' to System.Windows.Media.Brush'

Thanks

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