Showing Horizontal Lines

[sgordet]

I have three windows: the primary window has my chart, windows two and three each have an indicator.
I'm try to view horizontal grid lines 8 ticks apart. I'm using the dark background. When I go into the chart properties window and make the horizontal grid lines white, they then show up in each of my indicator windows (where I don't want them) but not in my chart window. How do I do this?

A corollary question: if I open the Chart Panel properties window on the right, that window has a selector for margin type of Percent and Price. What do those choices mean? Also, am I correct in assuming that selecting Fixed, Ticks, 8, in that window for horizontal grid lines will give me the 8 tick distances I'm trying to view in the main chart window, assuming that I could learn how to display the horizontal lines in that window and not in the two indicator windows?

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hello Stephen,

I'm not able to reproduce this on my end. When I set horizontal grid lines to White, the horizontal grid lines show in white in all three panels. If I understand correctly you have 1 chart window with 3 panels. The first panel shows the data series and the second and third panel an indicator. Could it be the range of the first panel is smaller than 8 ticks?

If you create a new chart with just 1 panel for the data series, does the issue persist? If not, please add the 2 indicators and check if the horizontal grid lines remain.

'Margin type' sets how the upper and lower panel margins are calculated (price or percent). Please see the link below.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/index.html?chart_panels.htm#UnderstandingPanelProperties

Yes, it should plot horizontal grid lines every 8 ticks like my screenshot.

[brucerobinson]

Not sure of this ‘cos not sure of layout re: chart, panel, window etc referred i.e. say set to white in chart window & display in indicator windows which seems can’t be correct, but could it simply be that Grid Lines are not set to ‘Visible’? Where you set the value to 8 Ticks is in right click y-axis menu, where you set Gridline colour, line width etc is in right click inside chart panel menu, and there is a check box for ‘visible’ which iirc is UNchecked by default and also isn’t in view without scrolling down with default menu size, at least on my screen size/res I.e. you might set Gridlines to white not knowing/seeing the ‘visible’ checkbox unchecked….
Just a thought might be worth exploring if chart is separate to those that are displaying.
Best

[sgordet]

Jason, I took your advice and created a new chart with just one panel. Voila!, grid lines.

I compared the properties for both charts, and they were identical. I then removed one by one the indicators from the chart which didn't have gridlines.

The culprit was bzVerticalLineAtTimeV1. I use this to automatically set repeating vertical lines as specific times during the day. From the nomenclature, I doubt that this is a native NT indicator--I probably got it from the NT User App Share. Is there possibly another indicator that you could suggest which has similar functionality?

Thanks,
Stephen

[NinjaTrader_RyanS]

Hello,

Unfortunately we cannot recommend or suggest any specific products, so you may want to search the user app share and/or ecosystem for a suitable alternative.