Crosstrading with Ninja Trader

[amenophis]

Hi,

I have a manual trading strategy, what means that I put orders on chart manually. I trade the MES, but I analyze the ES. The strategy is based on a type of bar from a commercial indicator. It is not minute, tick, or volume based bars, but a kind of reversal bars.

I have read how to put two dataseries in a chart, hide one, and send orders to the hidden dataseries, which would fullfil my needs. But there is a problem. In a minute based chart, if one chart is a 1 minute and the other is 5, the gap between candles in the 5 minutes will be constant, so hidding the 1 minute does not affect the 5 minute presentation. But with bars not time based, the bars are not identical in both instruments, so if I add the dataseries, the original ES chart gets distorted, the space between bars changes drastically, and I need to keep the original appearance. I haven't found a way that gets the MES chart doesn't affect the ES chart appearance when is inserted.

Is there any way to do this?

[NinjaTrader_Manfred]

Hello amenophis,

Thank you very much for your post.

At the current time, even if a data series is set to transparent, it would still occupy space on the chart.

If this data series is then based on a different scale, it would appear offset, as even the transparent candles would ensure they have enough space to be drawn.

We have two pending feature requests in this regard. These allow us to estimate the interest in specific features and helps our Development Team focus their efforts.

I have added a vote to both feature requests listed below:

SFT-4812 - Support to trade an instrument on the ChartTrader that is not added to the chart
SFT-2374 - Support to add a secondary, invisible data series that indicators/alerts may be based on to the chart

When a feature request is implemented, you'll find a description of the new feature in the release notes:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/?release_notes.htm

Should you have any further questions in this regard, please don't hesitate to let me know!

[WalterSkinner]

Do we have any updates on this?

[NinjaTrader_RyanS]

Hello, Currently this is still being tracked for user interest though I will add a vote on your behalf.