Horizontal Ray in Drawing Tools

[NinjaTrader_Kate]

Hello oheyn,

Thank you for your reply.

I have added a vote to you to SFT-2387 as well.

Please let us know if we may be of further assistance to you.

[Edward88]

Horizontal Ray Drawing Tool SFT-2387.

I am a new user on NinjaTrader and have been frustrated trying to draw horizontal rays with the existing ray drawing tool - its completely inadequate. This led me to search the internet for a solution and I found this post from 2018.

It is now nearly THREE YEARS since Senior Member "aligator" made the simple request to add Horizontal Ray to the Drawing Tools. This is such a basic and essential tool for drawing support and resistance on our charts. NinjaTrader is negligent for ignoring this simple yet important request for THREE YEARS. NinjaTrader, what are you waiting for??? Approve SFT-2387.

Thank You to "aligator" for attaching the add-on THREE YEARS AGO!

[NinjaTrader_Kate]

Hello Edward88,

Thank you for your reply.

It appears that votes for this were incorrectly put on SFT-2387, which is for adding additional indicators to the platform.

SFT-2149 is the correct SFT number for the request for Horizontal Rays. I've moved all votes from this thread to the correct SFT number and have added a vote for you as well.

As with all feature requests, interest is tracked before implementation is considered, so we cannot offer an ETA or promise of fulfillment. If implemented, it will be noted in the Release Notes page of the Help Guide.

Release Notes — https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ease_notes.htm

Please let us know if we may be of further assistance to you.

[marktrading]

Please add my vote as well.
Please add the option to put a note on the ray or horizontal lines. Something like a checkbox in the features of the ray/horizontal line where the other parameters are located.. Would be great to put prices, small notes ecc. in the note as soon as the ray is created.

[aligator]

Hello Everyone interested in Horizontal Ray Drawing Tool,

An Add-On for HorizontalRay including price labels is included in mahToolBar6 indicator. Just download the indicator and install from the following link. You have the option to select just the HorizontalRay or any number or drawing tools icons of your choice installed directly in NT main menu.

https://ninjatraderecosystem.com/user-app-share-download/a-mahtoolbar-2/

Cheers!

[NinjaTrader_Kate]

Hello marktrading,

Thank you for your reply.

I've added a vote for you to SFT-2149 as well.

Please let us know if we may be of further assistance to you.

[JohhyCarls]

Dear Support,

Please consider including a HorizontalRay line to the drawing tools (DrawingTools.Lines), a badly missed and perhaps the most useful of all lines for marking price action support and resistant lines on a chart. A feature that is commonly used by all traders.

Please note that there is already a custom add-on on the Forum for drawing Horizontal Rays (a 1-anchor click that also prints the series value on the Horizontal Ray) that can be nicely incorporated into the NT8 DrawingTools.Lines instead of being a separate add-on.

I have attached the add-on.

Thanks.

Thankyou for sharing the tool.

[topa11]

Hello Everyone interested in Horizontal Ray Drawing Tool,

An Add-On for HorizontalRay including price labels is included in mahToolBar6 indicator. Just download the indicator and install from the following link. You have the option to select just the HorizontalRay or any number or drawing tools icons of your choice installed directly in NT main menu.

https://ninjatraderecosystem.com/user-app-share-download/a-mahtoolbar-2/

Cheers!

aligator this is a great tool. quick question is there a way to disable the price label? thanks

[aligator]

aligator this is a great tool. quick question is there a way to disable the price label? thanks

Thanks. Yes, however, it will require some code changes.

[topa11]

Thanks. Yes, however, it will require some code changes.

I tired to delete this section, but there are errors when compiling. i can probably do it if i knew what i was doing. how much would this cost to change it? thanks
//draw price label
if(startPoint.X < panel.W){
TextFormat textFormat = chartControl.Properties.LabelFont.ToDirectWriteTex tFormat();
string label = chartControl.Instrument.MasterInstrument.FormatPri ce(StartAnchor.Price, false);
TextLayout textLayout = new TextLayout(Globals.DirectWriteFactory, label, textFormat, 999, textFormat.FontSize);
Point labelAnchor = new Point(panel.W - textLayout.DetermineMinWidth(), startPoint.Y);
RenderTarget.DrawTextLayout(labelAnchor.ToVector2( ), textLayout, Stroke.BrushDX);
textLayout.Dispose();

[aligator]

I tired to delete this section, but there are errors when compiling. i can probably do it if i knew what i was doing. how much would this cost to change it? thanks
//draw price label
if(startPoint.X < panel.W){
TextFormat textFormat = chartControl.Properties.LabelFont.ToDirectWriteTex tFormat();
string label = chartControl.Instrument.MasterInstrument.FormatPri ce(StartAnchor.Price, false);
TextLayout textLayout = new TextLayout(Globals.DirectWriteFactory, label, textFormat, 999, textFormat.FontSize);
Point labelAnchor = new Point(panel.W - textLayout.DetermineMinWidth(), startPoint.Y);
RenderTarget.DrawTextLayout(labelAnchor.ToVector2( ), textLayout, Stroke.BrushDX);
textLayout.Dispose();
}

You are almost there, missed commenting out the last " } ."

I suggest make a copy of the Add-On HorizontalRay Drawing Tool and rename it as your revised version so that it is not mixed with the original. Just comment out lines 313 thru 321 of and compile, it should work. Do not delete, just comment out in case you need to go back to original.

Let me know if it worked for you. It is a great 1-click icon on mahToolBar6. I can draw many rays and also delete them all with one click of the remove icon.

[topa11]

You are almost there, missed commenting out the last " } ."

I suggest make a copy of the Add-On HorizontalRay Drawing Tool and rename it as your revised version so that it is not mixed with the original. Just comment out lines 313 thru 321 of and compile, it should work. Do not delete, just comment out in case you need to go back to original.

Let me know if it worked for you. It is a great 1-click icon on mahToolBar6. I can draw many rays and also delete them all with one click of the remove icon.

Aligator, thanks for the advise, its looking and working great. but i took a short cut:
//draw price label
if(startPoint.X < panel.W){
}
thanks again

[ATooZ]

This is really great !! Thank you so much. I just wanted to ask one more thing as I don't know much of programming - will it be possible to only draw this for certain timeframes? What I mean by this is suppose I have a 5 min, 15 min and 4 hour chart opened side by side for ES and I draw the horizontal ray on 15 min and make it global then it will show up on both 5 min as well as 4 hour chart. So is there a way to draw this only on timeframes <=15 min but not on timeframes >15 min.

[aligator]

This is really great !! Thank you so much. I just wanted to ask one more thing as I don't know much of programming - will it be possible to only draw this for certain timeframes? What I mean by this is suppose I have a 5 min, 15 min and 4 hour chart opened side by side for ES and I draw the horizontal ray on 15 min and make it global then it will show up on both 5 min as well as 4 hour chart. So is there a way to draw this only on timeframes <=15 min but not on timeframes >15 min.

I assume anything can be programmed, but I do not think the use of "Global" in Draw.Text will differentiate between time frames.

However, a couple of possible alternatives are to either attach the indicator to those charts with time frames of interest or if all your charts are the same but with different time frames you can make a chart template with the indicator attached then simply apply the template to your time frames of interest.

Cheers!

[AtlasTrader]

Thank you for sharing that indicator, it made my workflow so much easier. Is there a way to move the price label to the left (start of the ray)? Having it to the right obscures the current price action. I'm hopeless with code so I'm hoping someone might know how to do this. Thanks a lot!