Simple Price and Spead Indicator

[johncolavito]

Hello everyone, I couldn't find this simple indicator anywhere, so I figured I create it for myself. I just wanted to create a simple indicator that displays price and spread on the chart. I trade forex and my broker is a five digit broker. The price code is quite simple, it's

double price = GetCurrentBid();

When I display it on my chart, it displays but for example if price is 1.83700 it will display price as 1.837.

1. How do I keep the price as a 5 digit number?
2. On the weekend, the price doesn't display because I guess it can't get a value because the market is closed. Is there a way to display the last price?
3. I only trade forex, for now, but I can I plan on trading futures. Is the spread on the ES, for example, the same as forex, ask-bid?

Thank you for taking the time out to read this. Hopefully someone could help me. I haven't really programmed in over 10 years so I'm kind of rusty.

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

Hello Johncolavito,

Thank you for your post.

I would try Math.Round(double, int32)

Math.Round(Close[0], 5);

Unless, there is real time data coming in, Close[0] will bring up the last traded price.

Yes, this is how spread is calculated.

[johncolavito]

I apologize for the delay in response. I tried it today after the market opened. It doesn't update until it receives tick data. However, I tried what was recommended and unfortunately, it didn't work. I am a beginner when it comes to c# but here is the code I tried. I'm sure i'm coding it wrong.

DrawTextFixed("price", (Math.Round(price,5).ToString()),TextPosition.TopR ight, Color.White, new Font("Arial", 18), Color.Transparent, Color.Empty, 3);

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

John, thanks for the reply. For the formatting you could force certain formattings through the ToString() method directly - http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...ead.php?t=3823

i.e. for your case try working with -

DrawTextFixed("price", (Math.Round(price,5).ToString("N5")),TextPosition.TopRight, Color.White, new Font("Arial", 18), Color.Transparent, Color.Empty, 3);

[johncolavito]

That worked perfectly! Thanks!