Display String in Market Analyzer

[usuallywin]

Hi,

Is it possible to display string in the market analyzer? XXX.set() seems to only take numbers. Or perhaps more generally, can I set an output of an indicator as string?

Thank you

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

Hello Usuallywin,

Thank you for your note.

You would need to override the Price Marker from the code in order to do this.

public override string FormatPriceMarker(double price)
{
     return myString;
}

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...ricemarker.htm

Let me know if I can be of further assistance.

[neoikon]

Thank you so much for this! Exactly what I was looking for.

On a related note, is it possible to set the "cell conditions" programmatically? Specifically, setting the background color based on a particular value (greater/less than zero, for example).

(I know how to do this manually within the Market Analyzer.)

Thanks in advance!

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

Hello Neokin,

Thank you for your post.

Why you can't directly program this functionality, you could set a data series inside the script to be a 1 or what value to want to test against the manual cell conditions that you would set up.

I.E. i have a condition in my script that sets the Data series value to 1. My cell condition is set to turn green with specified data series is 1 or greater

Let me know if I can be of further assistance.

[neoikon]

Thanks for the idea. For now, it seems I can just do it manually based on my existing output.

A couple other Market Analyzer programming questions:

Is it possible to create a single indicator that outputs multiple columns in MA? (right now, I am simply using multiple indicators; one per column)

Also, can you set the column name programmatically? (right now, I am setting it manually)

I see how you can set MaximumBarsLookBack to Infinite, but can you set the "# of bars to look back" programmatically? (right now, I'm setting it manually)

Anything that I can do in the code is one less thing that needs to be done manually by another user.

Thank you!

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

Hello Neokin,

All you are suggesting is unsupported and undocumented.
I don't have a lot of resources for programming this for the Market Analyzer.

However, if you are worried about your user base, you can create a Market Analyzer template that they can load into their side and then apply an Instrument list for that template.

Let me know if I can be of further assistance.