ChartMinder is a NinjaTrader7 indicator for capturing chart images from single or grouped charts for local logging or online posting. It follows in the footsteps of vvhg's vvScreenShot and breaks new ground, hopefully with much more to follow.
It is targeted at discretionary traders and live data bots. It is not for use with market replay, simulated data feed or high speed trading environments.
It supports local year/month/day and trade folder based storage mechanisms for manual, timer, event and execution driven logging and online posting.
Charts can be single or linked in named groups in all cases.
It supports opening of results in appropriate editors, explorers, image viewers and web browsers and has a simple mechanism for accessing futures.io (formerly BMT) threads.
The user has a wide choice of options and configurations but sensible (mostly safe and usually straightforward) defaults and feedback are provided wherever possible.
Operations are performed in continuous background threads to limit system impact, which in any case is largely negligible due to the nature of the actions and a predominantly descheduled state.
It also supports Cut/Copy/Paste of image data to/from hosted charts and a single level undo. Currently clips are not persistent, this is planned for next release. Clips can be positioned as sticky (price/time) or floating and can be easily moved with alignment and scaled.
It includes a number of minor bugfixes to inherited code, including title string measuring, blank title bar areas in chart only shots, a ChartTrader enable condition, a Plot fail on no data, stops annoying beeps on Alt key use, and improves shots where the data series also got selected.
This is a stable BUT Alpha release - treat it as such. It runs well on some English computers, outside that I can promise nothing and in any case I accept no consequences whatsoever for its use, intended or otherwise. I will of course make best efforts to respond to all reasonable requests for fixes and enhancements, whenever sensible and possible.
A second ZIP file containing PDF user documentation is also supplied. Most of it is too basic for many futures.io (formerly BMT) users but it will only take a few minutes to view - please RTFM.
I will add further documentation and plans for subsequent features and releases as we go, assuming it gets past opening night. With that said I'm knackered and off to bed, so let the buglist begin. :)