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.
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Updates on 7/7/16:
- Added the PriceActionSwingOscillator
Updates on 5/17/16:
- Updated to run on NT8b11, may not run on earlier beta versions
- Corrected issue with ambiguous method names between the System.Drawing and System.Windows.Media namespaces
- Removed some stray Print statements used in debugging
- Fixed issue with chart not auto scaling
- Added option to show only ticks in the price swings
- Shortened the display name to "PriceActionSwing (Instrument, BarsPeriod, SwingType, SwingSize)"
This is a NT8 conversion of the PriceActionSwing and PriceActionSwingOscillator indicators written by @dorschden. These indicators are ones that are recommended for use with the Jigsaw tools for entry/exit bias. There are three files, PriceActionSwing.cs and PriceActionSwingOscillator.cs in the Indicators folder and PriceActionSwingBaseMethods.cs in the AddOns folder.
Original thread on what this indicator does is here.
Tested as thoroughly as possible, any issues, please PM me.
May 6th, 2024 11:20 AM skyland Great Indicator but no longer works with NT-8 Version 8.1.3.0 64-bit!
May 18th, 2022 09:28 PM Keenbreathy I don't know how but I'm certain this indicator ruined my NT 8 workspace. As son as I installed, it froze all live data
. After reinstalling NT, I loaded my backed up Workspace only to have it happen again. The only fix that worked was to
load any workspace from before this indicator.
May 2nd, 2022 01:16 PM lavender Thank You for this work! KISS is perfect...