Change single bar color

[Stoop]

Hi,

I'm trying to make an indicator to change the color of a single bar when I get a long/short signal. Anyone know how I can go about doing that?

This is how it currently looks like:

if (long signal)
{
BarColor = Color.Gold;
}


else if (short signal)
{
BarColor = Color.Silver;
}

My programming knowledge is very limited (to a few hours from How to's on youtube).

- Stoop

[NinjaTrader_AdamP]

Stoop,

This looks ok here, i.e. it appears it would work.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?barcolor.htm

[Stoop]

Hi,
Thanks for your reply, I figured out what was wrong. I had an indicator using ATR(20) and realised it wouldn't show anything because I was missing:
if (CurrentBar < 21)
return;

Anyways, I have another question I was hoping you could help me with. I have tried searching around for it but can't seem to find an answer. When I run my indicator it doesn't use the latest bar, even though it's closed. Or rather, it doesn't draw my indicator all the way to the latest bar. I tried looking at the standard DonchianChannel Indicator but the same thing happens to that one as well.
The only option I have found is to use Displacement = 1, but that doesn't really help.

Do you have an idea on how I can fix that?

[NinjaTrader_AdamP]

Stoop,

Unfortunately I would need to see more code here. Could you post the problem section of your code?

[koganam]

Hi,
Thanks for your reply, I figured out what was wrong. I had an indicator using ATR(20) and realised it wouldn't show anything because I was missing:
if (CurrentBar < 21)
return;

Anyways, I have another question I was hoping you could help me with. I have tried searching around for it but can't seem to find an answer. When I run my indicator it doesn't use the latest bar, even though it's closed. Or rather, it doesn't draw my indicator all the way to the latest bar. I tried looking at the standard DonchianChannel Indicator but the same thing happens to that one as well.
The only option I have found is to use Displacement = 1, but that doesn't really help.

Do you have an idea on how I can fix that?

If you want an indicator to plot on the current bar as it is developing, you have to set CalculateOnBarClose to "false".

[Stoop]

It was just the CalculateOnBarClose that had to be set to false. I guess I just didn't think about that because I thought the bars were done developing.

Thanks a lot to the both of you!