This script installs as an indicator and allows users to drag their charts in any direction with a mouse. It is a feature of eSignal charting which I used for many years and simply could not live without when I moved to NinjaTrader. It is basically a rewrite of the NT7 version with the same name on this site and has been around for some time.
In truth NT8 provides this functionality already ( by holding down the Ctrl key ) but this indicator makes it that much easier by enabling it all the time.
I don't have much screen time last few years and I don't check in here that often but I will try and monitor for awhile to see that it works as expected. Leave comments in the original thread provided below.
Some Notes:
- If a chart has the Price Scale located on the Left side instead of the Right side of the chart as is normal, then you must configure ScrollsRite Scale Justification to the Left side also.
- To disable it temporarily simply uncheck the "Visible" checkbox in the ScrollsRite properties screen.
- If the Market suddenly shoots off the screen then hit the "F" icon at the top of the Price Scale to bring it back quickly.
January 21st, 2019
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TikDaddy
Hello Traders. This indicator looks for a congestion of candles and then a break out. Once the breakout is confirmed, it paints the box up or down and indicates the POC of that congestion box. The indicator is working in real time, but does not paint the box until the breakout is confirmed (2bars). You can change the Box Color if you want to see all of the boxes forming. I find that distracting.
I downloaded the CongestionBox4RNT8 a few months ago and I like the indicator, but there were a few annoying problems. This version fixes the problems that I found in my use.
Fixes:
1. The colors did not stick from startup to startup in the original version...
2. The original consumed a lot of resources, so I set a timer so that it only calculated the boxes during times that matter to the user. This cuts down on the calculations and memory use. You can set the start/stop time to what you want.
R1: Trader Contrax was having problems with autoscaling in his setup. He found what needed to be changed (Thx). Most people will not notice a difference so I edited the indie, left the name the same and just updated the file.
Several traders are having 'freezing' problems. This indie is a resource hog. You want to run as little history as possible with Congestion Box. One trick that I use is to have a transparent chart on the same panel as my main chart. Let's say you have a 5min chart. Add a second 5min chart to the same panel, transparent candles, wicks, etc, with 1 day history. The Congestion Box uses the 1 day chart as its input. You can have several instances of charts on the same panel.. A great NT attribute.
R2: Member jabeztrading, the original developer of the indicator, fixed the issue with the button recurring. This fix also fixed the resource problem. Excellent work!!!
Please let me know if you find any other issues.
Thanks
Bob
Here is the original description...Converted from the NT7 version. Originally design for range bars to box in those congestion areas produced by up and down bars that resulted from the market not going anywhere (it's not perfect).
But some folks had success using the indicator on minute charts.
The box is delayed and the red and green colors are even more delay but this was not meant to be a real time indicator.
December 31st, 2018
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bobc635
NT 8 Market Replay data for CL
Contract: CL 01-19
Download instructions:
dowload and unzip file in NT 8 replay folder Documents\NinjaTrader 8\db\replay
The file will create a folder with the relevant front month and a series of .nrd files inside (one per day)
Make sure to use the "extract here" function as shown, and not the "Extract to" function, to avoid the creation of a folder within a folder.
Note: the archive contains only the dates with the most volume for this contract, meaning, this is data relevant only to when the contract becomes the front month.
December 20th, 2018
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xplorer
Guys I paid for this indicator to be developed.
It’s basically a hidden automatic “stop order”
I call it my failsafe loss limiter, as when trading using NT8 I have a bad habit of removing the visible stops on the chart at times to give a trade room to breathe and then every so often I end up getting run over by a sharp move and I wanted to prevent that from happening. Stop the bad habit so to speak. So i had this indicator developed which could run in the background.
Basically you attach it to your chart like any other indicator, set your amount of ticks stop loss in the settings and away you go. Then whenever you place a trade via NT8 chart trader and forget to use a stop, when your set level/amount of ticks against you is hit, you will be stopped out automatically.
Now, forewarning:
When I used the indicator it worked well but then there were a couple of issues:
1. At times, when say I had it set to 16 ticks stop loss and I wanted to change my mind and I changed the set level to say 12 ticks in the sttings, even though I changed it in the indicator settings, the original set level was filled, not the new level.
And,
2. When I remove the indicator from the chart, the auto stop would still function and I’d get filled even though I had removed It from the chart. It only removes from the chart when I removed the actual indicator from the ninjascriptor editor indicators list.
Both of the above shouldn’t happen.
I asked my programmer to look at this, but he couldn’t find anything wrong in the programming. So if any of you programmers on here would like to use the indicator and maybe give it a test and fix the above issues if you have them I think it would be helpful indicator for NT8 users.
I really liked using this indicator as it forces my own limits upon me and saves me from my own bad habits of moving / removing stops.
Although sometimes you do have to change the stop size due to changing market conditions/volatility.
Guys I paid for this indicator to be developed.
It’s basically a hidden automatic “stop order”
I call it my failsafe loss limiter, as when trading using NT8 I have a bad habit of removing the visible stops on the chart at times to give a trade room to breathe and then every so often I end up getting run over by a sharp move and I wanted to prevent that from happening. Stop the bad habit so to speak. So i had this indicator developed which could run in the background.
Basically you attach it to your chart like any other indicator, set your amount of ticks stop loss in the settings and away you go. Then whenever you place a trade via NT8 chart trader and forget to use a stop, when your set level/amount of ticks against you is hit, you will be stopped out automatically.
Now, forewarning:
When I used the indicator it worked well but then there were a couple of issues:
1. At times, when say I had it set to 16 ticks stop loss and I wanted to change my mind and I changed the set level to say 12 ticks in the sttings, even though I changed it in the indicator settings, the original set level was filled, not the new level.
And,
2. When I remove the indicator from the chart, the auto stop would still function and I’d get filled even though I had removed It from the chart. It only removes from the chart when I removed the actual indicator from the ninjascriptor editor indicators list.
Both of the above shouldn’t happen.
I asked my programmer to look at this, but he couldn’t find anything wrong in the programming. So feel free to use it and if any of you programmers on here could maybe give it a test and fix the above issues if you have them I think it would be helpful indicator for NT8 users.
I really liked using this indicator as it forces my own limits upon me and saves me from my own bad habits of moving / removing stops.
Although sometimes you do have to change the stop size due to changing market conditions/volatility.
Uses a 2 out of 3 vote from CDMomentum, DeltaMomentum and CDCycleMTF to identify overall bursts of Cumulative Delta energy in one direction or the other.
Used with the 'Scoop' option, will identify the first of these (in gold) that occur after a 'failed' period of buying or selling i.e. price went the other way.
V2 - exposes MTFBrickFactor when using Scoop. I use BetterRenko, but somewhile back changed the bar type from 17 to 1017 due to a clash. As long as you set MTFBrickFactor to non-zero when using Scoop then this is not a problem. BTW - set MTFBrickFactor 1 and the code will always ensure bars size x, x+1 and x+2 will be loaded.
December 11th, 2018
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Stevea94
Uses a 2 out of 3 vote from CDMomentum, DeltaMomentum and CDCycleMTF to identify overall bursts of Cumulative Delta energy in one direction or the other.
Used with the 'Scoop' option, will identify the first of these (in gold) that occur after a 'failed' period of buying or selling i.e. price went the other way.
December 10th, 2018
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Stevea94
This is my take on something Gomi produced (and likely others). However my spin was I wanted to look at how big each of the pushes was - I call them bulges. I was looking to try and spot exhaustion, divergence, flush combinations.
To do this the indicator looks at consecutive red/green bars (and allows a specified number in the other direction without switching) to calculate the size of each bulge and runs some stats. It calculates a running threshold and treats that as 100%. If a bulge in excess of 100% is spotted it marks the bulge yellow dots and at the end prints its percentage size on the main chart area.
In the end I found it more useful to mark the bulge sizes relative to the previous ones on the same side (buy/sell). Magenta means the bulge is greater than the previous two and white means less than previous two. Watch for sequences of Magenta - Red/Green and then White. This can mean a move is over and ready to turn.
The indicator does colour bars according to some fuzzy bias logic. Basis for this is when bulge sizing switches from one side to the other and this can be seen when a white cross marks a bulge. The magenta bar simply says that a magenta bulge is in progress. Frankly I never found it that useful. In the end I preferred the bias colouring of my CDCycleMTF indicator mentioned in the Delta thread (although I still monitor this bias under the bonnet of my VacuumBar indicator).
December 10th, 2018
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Stevea94
Pretty standard momentum of both CD and a separate one for price included.
Both are adaptive if Period is less than 1 (typically choose 0.07), but the default is set to a Period of 14 (it is also a lot faster due to adaptive period calculations).
April 10th, 2019 07:55 AM Brian Davies This is great! Best loaded onto one chart only as it functions on the chart trader. I would also like similar in
dicator, which limits daily max loss by account. Any suggestions anyone?
February 12th, 2022 11:35 AM zoomie Very nice...Thank you
June 28th, 2020 09:17 PM naphtalicapital Bob,
Thanks for the congestion indicator. Really a great job. My concern is that each time the green or red bx appears the pr
ice is already moved 4 or 5 points. So it really lagging price. So if you have a 5 choppy ziz zag move, you are out of m
oney 20ticks in each move. Is there a way to adjust the parameters to have the boxes appear sooner? If this can be done,
that will be a home run.
thanks
May 23rd, 2020 04:40 AM ZivG This is totally awesome. How can we use it in NinjaScript or a strategy? What's the signal that tells us when the box is
done forming?
THANK YOU --
Ziv.
November 1st, 2019 09:01 AM justtrader Very useful
September 27th, 2019 05:17 PM Bullywig Is there a way to assign a value to the boxes? For example, 1 for a green box broken to the up side, and -1 for a broke
n red box to the downside so it can be called in a strategy?