Text on candle at each price level

[Salmanyom]

Guys I have tried many times draw text at each price level and update that text with volume at that price. But all my attempts failed. Any could help on this matter.


Regards
Salman

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

Thank you for your note. Can you describe what you are doing and what is the unexpected behavior?

Screen shots will help:
To post a screenshot press Alt + PRINT SCREEN to take a screen shot of the selected window. Then go to Start--> Accessories--> Paint, and press CRTL + V to paste the image. Lastly, save as a jpeg file and post the file as an attachment.

[Salmanyom]

Hello,

Thank you for your note. Can you describe what you are doing and what is the unexpected behavior?

Screen shots will help:
To post a screenshot press Alt + PRINT SCREEN to take a screen shot of the selected window. Then go to Start--> Accessories--> Paint, and press CRTL + V to paste the image. Lastly, save as a jpeg file and post the file as an attachment.

Thanks Ben for your response. The idea is so simple, I need to draw the effect of traded volume Bid & Ask at each tick at the current price. Therefore, I can view TimeAndSales but more effectively on candles and see the effect of volume on chart. This will help me identify the short-term strong support and resistance and more importantly areas where upthrust in price is highly expected.


See attached the screen shot and visual representation of the idea.

Here's the code I used to plot the text:

publicoverridevoid Plot(Graphics graphics, Rectangle bounds, double min, double max)
{
// Draw text.

Font trFont = new Font("Times New Roman", 12);
int y = trFont.Height + 20;
Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(0, y, (int)bidPrice, trFont.Height);
graphics.DrawRectangle(Pens.Blue, rect);
string testString = "This is just a test";

graphics.DrawString(testString, trFont, Brushes.Blue, rect);


}

So I need to draw a rectangle that's exactly equals the candles' size and the string should contained within the candles. Volume data should be updated in each textbox.


Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

So close up picture of the candles is what you want? I suggest using DrawText and use the yPixelOffset setting. You can read about it here:

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/DrawText.html

[Salmanyom]

Hello,

So close up picture of the candles is what you want? I suggest using DrawText and use the yPixelOffset setting. You can read about it here:
http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/H.../DrawText.html

Dear Ben,

What's the appropriate integer value I should use for yPixelOffset, simply because I tried to put the TickSize but the chart is the same with tiny and compressed candles see attached

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

Here try the following. Pixels offset is set at 100 there. Pixels are very small so you will have to use larger values to see movement:

DrawText("new",true,"mytesting",0,High[0],100,Color.Black,new Font("Arial",15,FontStyle.Bold),StringAlignment.Center,Color.Aqua ,Color.Blue,1);

[Salmanyom]

Thanks Ben,

now the text issue is solved as shown in the attached picture. But the problem here is that the textbox's content is overwritten with volume per incoming tick. I need to store the vol per each price so that new volume data will add up to the previous volume.


Regards,

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

I'm not sure what you want exactly but it sounds like you want volume per price per bar and the sum of all of the volume on each bar to equal the volume per bar. This is just tracking the vlaues and adding the new incoming volume to the existing volume and drawing that each time it changes. Something like:
totalvol_at_priceX = totalvol_at_priceX + newvol_at priceX

Where newvol_at_priceX is the incoming single tick volume. You will have to do that for each price and then draw it. Hope that helps. Give it a try and post questions.

[omololu]

Thanks Ben,

now the text issue is solved as shown in the attached picture. But the problem here is that the textbox's content is overwritten with volume per incoming tick. I need to store the vol per each price so that new volume data will add up to the previous volume.


Regards,

Salmanyon,

Did you get this "TimeandSales" indy working ? If Yes, can you share it ?

Lolu