At the end of the day, I print out the days chart and file it away. I was manually writing the day of the week on the chart, to later see if there was correlation in the DOW price action.
So to make life easier I thought I might as well print this on the chart automatically as each day starts. So on the first tick of the day, it prints the DOW to the left of the first bar.
The drawing of the DOW is actually in two parts.
1. Is the calculation of the DOW and placement into a string.
2. The actual printing of the string using a function.called "printtext"
The PrintText function has input parameters for the Day,time,position,text,size,color AND printing of the text in either a horizontal or vertical format.
The printtext function could be used for a multiple of things ie vertical printing text directly above a bar ie "Inside Bar" or whatever.
July 29th, 2011
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Hi All,
The market I trade goes from 9:50AM to 4:30PM.
During this time I get so wrapped in the trades that I tend to forget about what time it is and other external or market related events that happen at specific times.
As an example, most morning trends tend to finish around 11:30AM.
But there are also other events that happen that can effect the price of the market I'm trading, such as Forex news announcements, CPI news etc. All of these are at specfic times of the day (I use ForexFactory.com to look up this information each morning and enter into this study)
So I tought it would be handy to have a reminder/alarm clock for these events.
So the the attached file study allows 3 time based events to be entered that will generate Alerts in Multicharts 10min prior, 5min prior and the actual event time. There is also a EOD (End of Day) time that can also be entered.
When the Alert happens, it displays the yellow Multicharts Alert box with the description of the Alert that was triggered ie "CPI News Announcement"
The Alert/Propeties can be set to automatically clear after a certain period ie 10secs or only clear by clicking on the alert with the mouse. (My preferred way)
July 29th, 2011
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Exported using NT7.00006.
Here is an interesting indicator for placing notes on a chart. Credit goes to Snaphook on Ninja Forum. It can be dropped on the main panel or a panel of its own. You can write up to 10 comments in various color and font sizes.
I find it very useful to list my rules as a reminder on my trading chart.
The attached example screenshot shows Roger Felton's entry and money management rules discussed in his last BMT webinar. Here I have used a Panel Left Edge offset of 530.
I am posting in BMT Elite Section to show Roger's trading rules, otherwise the indicator is public on Ninja Forum downloads.
This indicator plots VWAP along with Standard Deviation Bands. It also plots a rolling intraday POC along with it.
Then the Skew, current size of ONE Standard Deviation, and the percentage ratio of skew to ONE Standard Deviation are all calculated. These are then displayed in the upper left hand corner.
General idea is based on Skew and trading around that. Skew is the relationship between the VWAP and the POC. A small skew implies the market is currently in a ranging environment. A larger skew implies the market is trending as the POC and VWAP are separating.
Positive Skew occurs when the VWAP is above the POC.
Negative Skew occurs when the VWAP is below the POC.
Symetrical Skew occurs when the VWAP ~= POC
The skewToStandard Deviation % is the ratio of the skew to the size of ONE standard Deviation. I put that there as a possible way to monitor how the skew may be stacking up to current volatility, i.e. the current standard Deviations....which is the distance between the bands. This should be a better measurement that a fixed number, as it is tied to volatility. The higher the %, the smaller the skew, the less likely a trend is in place.
I do not use these things and coded for a buddy. Details of how to trade them can be found at HERE.
I also have a pdf 'cliff notes' summary of the thread, but I can only seem to post one attachment with this indicator. If you want it, send a pm and I'll send it to you.
After some real time monitoring, I will update the next version with more customization for the end user such as more plotting options, color bars, trend etc.......
Notes, please read:
This indicator is an early release, I will update with new version in the near future
The newer version will have more plotting and display options
Also included will be a buffer to decide how much seperation to determine trending vs chop
Right now, the START TIME for the POC is there, but the START TIME for the VWAP is NOT. By default it starts and ends at the END of the US session, which is what most people will use I imagine. Will update in next release.
I had this up earlier but realized it didn't export from NT properly. I had someone else test it and this one should work fine.
July 25th, 2011
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Marks inside bars and outside bars with a diamond above the bar.
You can enable / disable inside bars and outside bars from displaying seperately and also change the color of the diamond marker, and how far above the bar it is placed in ticks.
July 25th, 2011
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Previously I only had this indicator posted on Ninja Support....(but based on requests, I've added it to the BMT downloads area. As I get time, I will modify and improve the code)
Ninja charts currently do not provide an automated method....(at least none I know of)....to set a 'visual scale' on Price.
Ninja allows manually scaling of the chart, but when price moves outside the desired range, Ninja requires you to..."click the F box"...in the upper left hand corner to regain scaling, and then repeat the manual process all over again. This means that when price narrows, the smaller swings take up the entire chart, causing small swings to visually appear the same size as larger swings....and causing small candles to elongate on the chart.
I have coded a very basic "scaling indicator" that will hold the Ninja charts in a desired tick range (y axis up-down). When price narrows, the chart scale will remain as you set it and the candlesticks will paint themselves showing visually appropriate swings. When/If price starts swinging significantly and moves outside of your scaled range, the indicator lets Ninja scaling take over...so price always remains within the bounds of your chart.
The ChartScale indicator automatically adjusts to any market "tick size"....and calculates the scaling range based on your settings...
- Lookback Period
- Desired # of ticks for right hand y axis
The indicator adds the appropriate amount of 'space' to the top and bottom of the chart when price narrows, maintaining a visual perspective that reflects the narrowed price swing.
NOTE: The 'blue lines' on the example are simply to help illustrate the comparison, they do not actually draw on the chart
July 24th, 2011
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Exported using NT 7.0.1000.6
This indicator is an enhanced version of the NinjaTrader Regression Channel Indicator.
The indicator calculates the same values for the linear regression as the default NinjaTrader indicator does, but uses a modified Plot() method.
If you scroll the chart horizontally, this indicator will display the regression channel for the last bar painted on the chart, while the NinjaTrader indicator always displays the regression channel for the last bar of the data base.
To understand how it works, just put both indicators - the NinjaTrader default indicator and this indicator - on your chart and scroll horizontally, and you will notice the difference.
Update July 23, 2011: Indicator updated to work with non-equidistant bar spacing, as used by multi-series charts.
This is a set of indicators, which is based on the work of V. Kravchuk, who published an article on Maximum Entropy Spectral Analysis in the Valutny Speculyant. The indicators are freely available for MetaTrader, and I have translated them to NinjaTrader.
The indicator formulas show that they are highly curve fitted, probably to the daily charts of EURUSD about 10 years ago. Therefore they should be used with precaution.
The indicators include
FATL, SATL, RFTL, RSTL: The Fast Adaptive Trendline (FATL), the Slow Adaptive Trendline(SATL), the Reference Fast Trendline (RFTL) and the Reference Slow Trendline (RSTL) are four digital filters that were obtained by Maximum Spectum Entropy Analysis. These four filters can be displayed via the anaAdaptiveTrendlines indicator, which is included with the package.
FTLM_STLM: This is the Fast Trendline Momentum and the Slow Trendline Momentum. FTLM as calculated as the difference FATL - RFTL, STLM as the difference SATL - RSTL. Display via anaFTLMSTLM indicator.
Range Bound Channel Index (RBCI): Allows to identify overbought and oversold conditions by using all main market cycles.
Perfect Commodity Channel Index (PCCI): Shows the high frequency component of the current volatility.
Update July 20, 2011: Range Bound Channel Index and Perfect Commodity Index added.
November 30th, 2012 12:47 PM OpalDragon Great thanks! BUT ONE THING :0 Could you add the option to the indicator so that we can select the MARKERS ONLY or
No Trades instead MARKERS AND TEXT or NO Trades as you have it right now..?
Like adding a drop down select option in the parameters that says:
1) Markers only
2) Text and Markers
and if we select option 1 then it will Toggle between Markers only and No Trades..
October 8th, 2011 01:46 AM Default User
September 8th, 2011 03:36 AM Saroj very cool!
August 18th, 2011 08:11 AM taylor
July 26th, 2011 06:06 PM Small Dogs Thanks Exactly what I was looking for. I was about to give up and try to write it myself.
March 23rd, 2012 07:51 AM Arpad This is an amazing little utility!
Thanks!
September 5th, 2011 09:15 AM learning0101
July 26th, 2011 09:10 PM skyfly This is really really good. I hate always having to screw around with the scaling, while trading is going on, just to ge
t it to "look" right. I do not know why in NT7 they haven't taken care of this, would be so simple to fix.
August 1st, 2012 05:38 AM makers301 When ever I restart Ninja the color on the diamond makers goes away and has to be reset. Is this they it works or am I m
January 23rd, 2012 03:32 PM rainbowchaser Thanks Forrestang. I've looking to learn about the VWAP anf how to us it so this comes very handy. Thanks for sharing.
August 3rd, 2011 01:21 AM djkiwi Thanks for doing this, great work....