Indicator Output on Price Chart

[laocoon]

Hello

Is there a way to plot the (numerical) output of an indicator on the price chart? (Much like the DrawTextFixed command but for indicator output values).

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello laocoon,
Thanks for your post.
Unfortunately plots takes double as a value only.

You can use the DrawText object to print the values of the indicator for each bar. For example
DrawText("str" + CurrentBar, Close[0].ToString(),0,Low[0] - 2 * TickSize, Color.Blue);
will print the closing price of the bar 2 (two) ticks below the low of the bar.

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

You might also find the StringSeries class handy regarding this http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...ries_class.htm

Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.

[koganam]

Hello

Is there a way to plot the (numerical) output of an indicator on the price chart? (Much like the DrawTextFixed command but for indicator output values).

Thanks

Actually you answered your own question.

DrawTextFixed("Indicator Value", "Indicator Value " + Value[0].ToString("C"), TextPosition.BottomRight, Color.Black, new Font("Arial", 10), Color.Empty, Color.Empty, 0);

[laocoon]

Thanks for your replies Joydeep & Koganam.

Koganam:
Thanks for posting a code snippet. Could I ask you to show me how you would modify the snippet in order for it to draw the output of the MACD indicator (or any other one)? I'm not sure how to replace the "Indicator Value" part of the snippet with the output variable of the indicator.

Thanks a lot.

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Thanks koganam for your input.

Laocoon,
The MACD code snippet will be:

DrawTextFixed("Indicator Value", "Indicator Value " + MACD(Close, 12, 26, 9)[0].ToString("C"), TextPosition.BottomRight, Color.Black, new Font("Arial", 10), Color.Empty, Color.Empty, 0);

Please do let me know if I can assist you any further.

[laocoon]

Thanks a lot for that Joydeep.

Just a quick question: I copied the snippet you provided and it works great, but it plots the MACD Value preceded by the letters "Fr.". Any idea as to what this means?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello laocoon,
Since the code has a “C” it prints your local currency, Fr in your case. So if you remove the “C” it wont append the Fr.

DrawTextFixed("Indicator Value", "Indicator Value " + MACD(Close, 12, 26, 9)[0].ToString("C"), TextPosition.BottomRight, Color.Black, new Font("Arial", 10), Color.Empty, Color.Empty, 0);
Change to

DrawTextFixed("Indicator Value", "Indicator Value " + MACD(Close, 12, 26, 9)[0].ToString(), TextPosition.BottomRight, Color.Black, new Font("Arial", 10), Color.Empty, Color.Empty, 0);

Please let me know if I can assist you any further.

[laocoon]

Thanks for this Joydeep, got it. I removed the "C" and the text disappeared indeed.
The thing is, the indicator output now has 10+ decimals, where it had only one before.

Example:
Before: 4.1
After: 4.1748384959

Is there something I can do to remove the decimals?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

We're glad to hear that lacoon, can you try this please for the formatting style :

DrawTextFixed("Indicator Value", "Indicator Value " + MACD(Close, 12, 26, 9)[0].ToString("N1"), TextPosition.BottomRight, Color.Black, new Font("Arial", 10), Color.Empty, Color.Empty, 0);

[laocoon]

Perfect, works like a charm.
Thanks Bertrand!