How to add pop ups

[kanna275]

Dear members,

How to add pop up window while triggering buy/sell/target/stoploss
and how to add trigger price along with buy/ sell signal

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

Hello,

Thanks for your post.

Creating a message box (pop up) would be outside of the scope of what we can support as we do not have any native methods to do so, although it is technically possible.

Please see the following thread to help get you started with some ideas on how you can create alerts other messages:

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=34315

If you truly would like a pop-up window, I'd suggest looking into the MessageBox class provided by the .NET Framework:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.messagebox(v=vs.110).aspx

If you'd like this to come up once a specific order has been triggered, you can use the OnOrderUpdate method to check for order updates. Below is an example of using OnOrderUpdate or OnExecution to check for order states:

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=7499

Can you define what you mean by add trigger price?

[kanna275]

Thank you. but I have wrongly mentioned message box as pop up

Hello,

Thanks for your post.

Creating a message box (pop up) would be outside of the scope of what we can support as we do not have any native methods to do so, although it is technically possible.

Please see the following thread to help get you started with some ideas on how you can create alerts other messages:

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=34315

If you truly would like a pop-up window, I'd suggest looking into the MessageBox class provided by the .NET Framework:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.messagebox(v=vs.110).aspx

If you'd like this to come up once a specific order has been triggered, you can use the OnOrderUpdate method to check for order updates. Below is an example of using OnOrderUpdate or OnExecution to check for order states:

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=7499

Can you define what you mean by add trigger price?

I have added the messagebox from this code
protected override void OnBarUpdate() { MessageBox.Show("This is an OnBarUpdate() test", "Testing OnBarUpdate()!"); }but how to add message box after buy/sell signals

and how to add price (like buy @ XXX.XX) above/below the signals

Thanks in advance

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

To clarify: are you looking for a pop-up for manual orders, or orders that come from the same NinjaScript strategy you're working on?

[kanna275]

Re: Clarification

I am looking for indicators neither strategy nor trades.

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

You can pass any value you wish into the message box window. If you have a specific price for your signal when that condition is true, you can reference that however it is you're determining what the price is through code.

For example, if your buy signal was the High of the previous bar, you could use:

	MessageBox.Show("buy @ " + High[1].ToString());

[kanna275]

Thanks a lot.
How can I plot the price with buy/sell signals. like buy @ the price buy signal.

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

You can use any of the DrawMethods to visualize this information your chart:

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/drawing.htm

For example you can use the DrawText() method:

DrawText("tag1", buyPrice.ToString(), 0, buyPrice, Color.Black);

ref: http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...7/drawtext.htm

[DaveE]

Not sure that MessageBox is a good idea because it blocks the single NT 7 UI thread, and if someone puts MessageBox in something like OnBarUpdate, then odd sequencing or context issues arise that would be unexpected to most users.
Example:

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
        {
            if (Historical) return;
          _mySeqCount1++;
            string s = string.Format("CurrentBar={0}, Time[0]={1}, _mySeqCount1={2}, _mySeqCount2={3}", CurrentBar, Time[0], _mySeqCount1, _mySeqCount2);
            Print("Pre-MessageBox: " + s);
            MessageBox.Show(s);
            _mySeqCount2++;
            Print(string.Format("Processing stuff that must be in correct bar context. CurrentBar={0}, Time[0]={1}, _mySeqCount1={2}, _mySeqCount2={3}", CurrentBar, Time[0], _mySeqCount1, _mySeqCount2));
}

Output

Pre-MessageBox: CurrentBar=1050, Time[0]=03/12/2013 18:55:43, _mySeqCount1=1, _mySeqCount2=0
Pre-MessageBox: CurrentBar=1051, Time[0]=03/12/2013 18:55:59, _mySeqCount1=2, _mySeqCount2=0
Pre-MessageBox: CurrentBar=1052, Time[0]=03/12/2013 18:56:42, _mySeqCount1=3, _mySeqCount2=0

(user has allowed 3 bars to be completed without pressing OK. User now presses OK on all three)

Processing stuff that must be in correct bar context. CurrentBar=1052, Time[0]=03/12/2013 18:56:42, _mySeqCount1=3, _mySeqCount2=1
Processing stuff that must be in correct bar context. CurrentBar=1052, Time[0]=03/12/2013 18:56:42, _mySeqCount1=3, _mySeqCount2=2
Processing stuff that must be in correct bar context. CurrentBar=1052, Time[0]=03/12/2013 18:56:42, _mySeqCount1=3, _mySeqCount2=3

So older bar CurrentBar code was only executed after subsequent bars were started, resulting in the incorrect NT context info (such as CurrentBar) being used in earlier bars.