Price marker and text on Horizontal lines - PLEASE!!!

[ralett]

I have a request for two simple (and common in other platforms) improvements for the horizontal line draw tool:

1) Add the "price marker" option to lines just like most indicators have so you can see the price that a horizontal line is drawn at. Every other platform I have ever used shows you the price at which a horizontal line is drawn. I know there are third party tools for this, but I like to keep my system free of 3rd party stuff as much as possible and this seems like a "no brainer" feature.

2) Allow text to be added to a horizontal linel. Again, common in other platforms and "no brainer". Every trader I know adds horizontal lines to there charts and labels what that line represents (support, resistance, last week's close, etc...). This should include the option to save that text as part of a template so, for example, I can easily and QUICKLY add support/resistance lines as the day unfolds by drawing a line, going to properties, select my template and have that template include all the line attributes (color, style, width, etc) AND the text to identify what that line represents.

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello ralett,

Thanks for your post.

There is an existing free and publicly available add-on you can download that we posted in the NT user apps that will provide the ability to automatically label a line with the price of that line. In addition, you can add your own text. You have options for text font, size, color. You can also create templates and can call these lines through Ninjascript. The labeledlines add-on will put additional drawing tools in the chart drawing dropdown so you can use them manually as well. Note that this covers most line types (horizontal, vertical, rays, etc.)

This add-on is publicly available on our NinjaTrader Ecosystem website:

• https://ninjatraderecosystem.com/use...-drawing-tool/

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[ralett]

Thank you for a quick, but useless, response.

I am aware of the Labeled Lines 3rd party tool. I actually have it on my system, but it does not meet any of the criteria I asked for. That is why I posted this request.

1) Labeled Lines does not put the price level in the "price marker" area, it only puts the price in the chart area which interferes with other things on the chart. It has an option in properties to select "Price scale" versus "end point", but these options do not actually work. It always puts the price above the line, in the chart area. I am asking for a line that PUTS THE PRICE IN THE SAME PLACE EVERY OTHER INDICATOR SHOWS THE PRICE! In the price marker area!

2) Labeled Lines does not save text as part of a template. Yes, you can add text to a labeled line after it is drawn, but if you save that line as a template and then apply that template to another Labeled Line, you will not see the text display. The text is not saved as part of the template.

3) Labeled Lines is a 3rd party tool with no actual support and no one responsible for fixing things that are broken (see items 1 and 2 above).

Why is it so hard to just add this as a feature request instead of making customers rely on unsupported tools for a basic function?

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello ralett,

Thanks for your reply.

I will write this up as a feature request.

If a feature request already exists your vote will be added to it.

In either event, I will update this thread when I have that information.

Thanks in advance for your patience.

[ralett]

Paul,

Thank you for adding the feature request. I apologize for my previous "snarky" comment.

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello ralett,

Your vote has been added to the existing feature request of SFT-3455.

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[Mindset]

please add my vote for this as well

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello Mindset,

Thanks for your note.

Your vote has been added.

Let us know if we may assist further.

[mkaraa]

Hi Brandon,

the issue with labeled indicator, it will only allow to add test or price marker on one chart, but it will not duplicate , attach to, other time frame charts.

can you help

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi mkaraa, the labeled lines drawing tool states on the chart, when you apply it as global, that global drawings are not supported with the tool. It was not possible to implement, unfortunately.

Kind regards.

[franki]

please add my vote for this.
Thank you

[1jlprop]

is there a way to have the text you add stay locked to the right side of the chart, as it is the text moves left as the chart builds more bars

thank you

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi 1jlprop, that feature would need to be added to the existing code, there is no option that allows that at this time. Other members of the community would need to volunteer to add features to the scripts posted on the ecosystem website, as the original scripts come "As Is".

Kind regards,
-ChrisL

[gbourque]

If you are talking about horizontal lines created by indicators you have written, you can create price markers that have the same value as the current value of the line. However, the marker is actually attached to another plot which, except for the marker, is invisible.

e.g.

// This plot supplies the price marker.
AddPlot(new Stroke(Brushes.Green, 1), PlotStyle.Line, "PriceMarker");

// Create the line
HorizontalLine AlertLine = Draw.HorizontalLine(this, tag, IsAutoScale, Price, Plots[0].Brush, Plots[0].DashStyleHelper, (int)Plots[0].Width);

// Set plot value equal to line.
Values[0][0] = Price;

//This prevents ghost lines from the price marker plot.
if (Values[0].IsValidDataPoint(1))
Values[0].Reset(1);


Only the marker will show up. If your line is moveable, code accordingly to update price when the line is moved.

[culpepper]

Please add a vote for existing feature request SFT-3455.
Thank you