Price marker format for T-Notes Futures Pivot Points

[soroka21]

I'm setting up chart for ZN with Pivots
Looks like the pivot lines are at correct levels unfortunately values for price markers are not showing correct format. e.g. S2 line at 120'005 having price marker indicating 120.15625
Is there any way to provide value in correct format?
Any help/suggestions greatly appreciated.

[NinjaTrader_Chip]

Hello soroka21,

Welcome to the NinjaTrader Support Forums!

These calculated (Pivot) values will be plotted using this standard decimal representation since the values are exact calculate outputs (not rounded). However, this type of indicator plot that you mention would be possible but would require custom programming in NinjaScript. Let me know if this is of interest & I can offer some helpful links to get you started.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

[soroka21]

I have some programming experience. So, please, provide link

[NinjaTrader_Chip]

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[soroka21]

I think I found algorythmic solution - will post it and explanation as soon as I will finish coding.
The only 2 questions I'm currently have are:
1) Knowing the symbol e.g. ZN (for US 10 Y. T-notes future) is it possible to know what ticks are not decimal (tick format)? If I would know this I will apply my formatting only to the symbols (instruments) really requiring such formatting
2) Is Price Marker for line some how accessible through the properties of the line so I can substitute decimal value with one representing appropriate ticks format?

I was trying to find this in documentation but was not succesfull.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hello soroka21,

1) Unfortunately this is not exposed. By the time you have access to prices they are all double values. You may consider working with Round2TickSize() method to identify a specific size here.

2) You can see here for the method on formatting price markers.

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

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hello soroka21,

I corrected my post above. There is option of using FormatPriceMarkers()

[soroka21]

Overriden FormatPriceMarker method is below. I'm using TickSize to distinguish between T-notes and other instruments.
Code is only covering T-notes and must be changed for other "exotic" tick sizes.

 
public override string FormatPriceMarker(double price)
{
double integerPart = Math.Floor(price);
double fraction = price - integerPart;
string priceMarker = "";
// For T-notes
if(TickSize == 0.015625) {
priceMarker = integerPart.ToString() + "'" + Math.Round(((fraction / TickSize)*5)).ToString().PadLeft(3, '0');
} else {
priceMarker = price.ToString();
}
 
return priceMarker;
}

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Thanks for sharing your code for this, soroka21.

[Harry]

FormatPriceMarkers() shifts the Y-Axis to the Left

Whenever I use public override string FormatPriceMarker() in an indicator, this shifts the Y-Axis to the Left.

There is an empty space created on the right side of the Y-Axis, see chart below. This empty space is independent from the code used. For example, the code

public override string FormatPriceMarker(double price)
{
	string priceMarker = price.ToString();
	return priceMarker;
}

shifts the y-axis to the left.

The amount shifted depends on the instrument. For bonds the shift is larger as opposed to other instruments. It seems that space reserved is the sum of the space required for the defined ticksize of the instrument and the space required for the newly defined format. Looks like a bug.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Thank you for the report, Harry. We will look into this and reply tomorrow, Tuesday.

[Harry]

Thank you for the report, Harry. We will look into this and reply tomorrow, Tuesday.

Thank you for your answer. It is not a big problem, but it reduces the size of the chart without need. I'd rather have that space within my chart.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Harry,

We are still looking into this here. I will edit this post once we finish investigating.

[Harry]

Thanks for the feedback.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hi Harry,

Updating here as this was found to be expected. Please see my previous reply.