Simple Indicator Help

[Aithin]

I sat down this morning to try and write up a very simple indicator ... but my brain does not seem to be working correctly

I'm looking for an indicator that will plot a bar in a new panel. All I'm after is a bar that counts up to the current Range Bar setting. For example ...

I'm using 15 range bars on a chart. I'm looking for something that will plot the current bars high - the current bars low. I need this to happen while the bar is forming. This way I can easily see when a new bar is about to start. (because the bar plotted will grow to 15)

If anyone can help me with this it would be great!

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Aithin, before delving into developing a custom study for this task: have you tried the NT inbuild RangeCounter indicator already?

[Aithin]

Thanks

Wow, My brain is REALLY not working this morning LoL

Thank you very much.

I'm going to look into the code and see if I can figure out how to get an alert in there, and also how to make it bigger.

So, I'll probably be back with those two questions


Thanks Again

[Aithin]

Yup, I've got those two questions above

Can anyone help me at add alert to the RangeCounter Indicator? I would like an alert when the Range Remaining is less than or equal to 3.

Also, if I could make the text larger that would be great.

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Aithin, we could unfortunately not modify this for you, but you would look to work the call to Alert() in :

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

rangeCount is the current seen range count you would like to compare to your threshold to.

The font is set in the variables section, you can change the type and size here.

[Aithin]

Thanks, and one more question

Since the indicator is locked I am unable to save changes I make to it. However, when I save it has something else I get namespace errors. I'm assuming since there are now two indicators with the same name. How do I get around this?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

The script is not locked but a system indicator that you could not edit, right click in the code and make a copy of it by selecting to 'save as', then edit and modify this copy only.

[Aithin]

Re Named the Indicator

I renamed the indicator RangeCounterTest ... I then found all instances of RangeCounter and replaced it with RangeCounterTest. The indicator compiled, and I saved it.

I then went to add it to a chart, and the only indicator I can see in the list is RangeCounterTestTest. Where is this coming from? I've checked the name of the file and it is clearly RangeCounterTest.

Also, I changed the font size ... compiled and saved the file. Loaded the RangeCounterTestTTest indicator (since it is the only option) but nothing changed?

Any ideas?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Aithin, I would not know where the TestTest comes from then, perhaps from the prior attempt to rename?

I would delete all modded versions and only use the 'save as' command in the original RangeCounter source code provided by us.

Then please try creating a new font under Variables, like

private Font textFont2 = new Font("Arial", 30);

Then use this font variables in the later calls in the code, recompile and reapply.