DrawRectangle and time

[Virge666]

Evening,

Looking to build a drawrectangle procedure that draws a box around the high and low of the period between 11:00am and 6:00pm.

We have two problems

1. How do we get the high and low over a particular time period ?
2. How can we pass this into a drawrectangle command ?

Any help would be appreciated.

I should also add that my session starts at 11:00am. Been playing with firstbarofsession

Cheers

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Welcome to the NinjaTrader support forums Virge666!

You can check out this reference sample for your request - http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/...ead.php?t=8600

The DrawRectangle method allows you to input the respective x/y start/end values - http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/H...Rectangle.html

If you need historical draw objects, use a unique tag id like "myTag" + CurrentBar

[Virge666]

Welcome to the NinjaTrader support forums Virge666!

You can check out this reference sample for your request - http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/...ead.php?t=8600

The DrawRectangle method allows you to input the respective x/y start/end values - http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/H...Rectangle.html

If you need historical draw objects, use a unique tag id like "myTag" + CurrentBar

thankyou.

I have been playing with the sample quite extensively. And the plan was to just modify this to give me my indicator.

The problem is how do we draw a box around the highs and lows of a particular day range... we can use 10 bars back, but I cannot use from 11am to 6pm for example.

Any ideas would be very useful... I just cannot find a way to find the highest value in a range of a few hours when the current time may be 5pm or it may be 10pm...

Cheers

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

You could either use the indicator the way it is and input your custom start and end times for the range to be defined.

As those keep developing throughout the day, you would need to save the highest / lowest values into variables and you those then in your DrawRectangle call, if you use a non-unique tag ID the rectangle will be redrawn as new values are established.

[fy260498]

First hour High & Low

Hi Support,

I was just trying to find indicator to plot for 1st hour High & Low values. I came across SampleSessionHighLow indicator as per the discussion here in this part of the support forum to have this requirement met. I loaded the indicator on chart but faced the following problem.

I trade from Australia and hence for me the US Future Market start trading at 00:30 AM and therefore my inputs for the Sample indicator would be

OpenHour = 0
OpenMinute = 30
EndHour = 1
EndMinute = 30

Now, first of all this indicator does not accept '0' value as the input for OpenHour and the moment I load the indicator on the chart with these values, the value of '0' changes to '1' on its own, clearly showing that '0' value is not acceptable or this indicator is not written for such value. This means I get High & Low values formed from 01:30 AM till 01:30 AM that serves no purpose for me. I believe that the indicator must be working fine where inputs for Open and Close Hours are less than 12 (maybe 12 hour format) but it does not take values in 24 hour format probably and therefore unfortunately cannot be used by users of Ninja Trader not staying in a time zone where the market opens during daytime. I feel stucked with this requirement and would appreciate support assistance.

Best regards,
Yusuf SHAIKH

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Yusuf,

The indicator you are referring to is just a technical reference sample and was never intended for actual use. It demonstrates key concepts of how to program such a condition.

As far as making this work for you it only requires very small tweaks that you can do yourself. Please open up the indicator in the NinjaScript Editor and expand the Properties region of the code.

You will see this:

[Description("")]
[Category("Parameters")]
public int StartHour
{
    get { return startHour; }
    set { startHour = Math.Max([B][COLOR=Red]1[/COLOR][/B], value); }
}

[Description("")]
[Category("Parameters")]
public int StartMinute
{
    get { return startMinute; }
    set { startMinute = Math.Max([COLOR=Red][B]1[/B][/COLOR], value); }
}

[Description("")]
[Category("Parameters")]
public int EndHour
{
    get { return endHour; }
    set { endHour = Math.Max([COLOR=Red][B]1[/B][/COLOR], value); }
}

[Description("")]
[Category("Parameters")]
public int EndMinute
{
    get { return endMinute; }
    set { endMinute = Math.Max([COLOR=Red][B]1[/B][/COLOR], value); }
}

On each of the lines that start with "set", change Math.Max(1, value) to Math.Max(0, value).

So it should look like this:

[Description("")]
[Category("Parameters")]
public int EndMinute
{
    get { return endMinute; }
    set { endMinute = Math.Max([COLOR=Red][B]0[/B][/COLOR], value); }
}

[fy260498]

Thanks Josh...

Hi Josh,

Thanks for your expert comments as usual. The formula did work for me and I am satisfied with the results. Atleast I don't have to manually feed the values now and it is system picked. Thanks once again and good day.

Best regards,
Yusuf SHAIKH

[Virge666]

Hi Josh,

Thanks for your expert comments as usual. The formula did work for me and I am satisfied with the results. Atleast I don't have to manually feed the values now and it is system picked. Thanks once again and good day.

Best regards,
Yusuf SHAIKH

me too mate - Thankyou.