New kind of Colored moving average coding

[draco]

Hi. All colored moving averages repaint because they are based on slope formula. I had an idea to remedy that.
1. Instead of being based on slope, the moving average color can be based on whether it was higher than the previous bar. For example, green if higher than previous bar, and red if lower than previous bar.
2. It would be nice to have all known moving averages that the indicator supports such as wma, hulls, etc.

I'm no coder, so experienced ninjas, please help out with the code. I posted a screenshot of an HMA color change indicator which is slope based and repaints. I guess thats how i would like whatever we create.

Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hello Draco,

You can use the built in functions Rising() and Falling() to check if a current value is higher than its previous value.

If you're using version 7, the multicolor plot approach has changed. See here for details.

See here if you'd like help with allowing different moving average selections.

[finnbjurvoll]

Moving average

I don't understand what you mean when you say that all ma's colored based on slope will repaint? That depends on how the slope is calculated. However, I took the free "Public enum" and added colors to it.
It will only work in NT7

[ThatManFromTexas]

I don't understand what you mean when you say that all ma's colored based on slope will repaint? That depends on how the slope is calculated. However, I took the free "Public enum" and added colors to it.
It will only work in NT7

In the past , multi color line plots in NT would paint over the correct color at the point where the different segments were joined together. For that reason I would always use dots instead of lines for multi color plots.

I downloaded your indicator and I get an error when compiling.

Indicator\Multi_MA.cs The type or namespace name 'UniversalMovingAverage' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) CS0246 - click for info 206 50

Do I need to find and download UniversalMovingAverage.cs?

[ThatManFromTexas]

I changed your code

publicenum UniversalMovingAverage6
{
EMA,
HMA,
SMA,
WMA,

}

to this

publicenum UniversalMovingAverage
{
EMA,
HMA,
SMA,
WMA,

}

then it compiled without errors.

[finnbjurvoll]

ThatManFromTexas, Thanks for the correction. Finn Jurbol

[tonism]

how can i get this download? thanks
tonism

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hi Tonism,

finnbjurvoll shared a file to download in post 3.

[tonism]

thank you - this didn't have a zip file - is there one?

[tonism]

is there a zip file for this indicator? thanks

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hello tonism,

You'll have to ask orginal author for a zip file. This code is not suppported or maintained by NinjaTrader.

.cs indicator files are stored in My Documents\NinjaTrader\bin\custom\indicator

[tonism]

thank you. it says member finnbjurvoll said there was a download but it doesn't work. any suggestions?
tonism

[eDanny]

You can copy the .cs file into your indicators folder manually. The from the Control Center click Tools/Edit NinjaScript/Indicator and select the indicator. When the editor opens, make the change specified by ThatManFromTexas. Compile the code and close. All done.

Dan

[Attitude Trader]

Thanks!

Thanks finnbjurvoll, ThatManFromTexas, eDanny.

Indicator (with correction) works great. Thanks for sharing.

-AT