RMMA & ModHeikenAshi

[Gumphrie]

"Rainbow Multiple Moving Averages" and "Modified Heiken Ashi".

As you can see from the screenshot these are a couple of pretty trend indicators. Please feel free to make your own modifications, suggested uses and report bugs. Note the RMMA comes with alpha and draw, as well as colour options.



Changelog:

Changed ModHeikenAshi 19th August - Vers 0.2, now has option to hide the shadow lines


To import:

- Download the file(s) contained in this thread to your desktop
- From the Control Center window select the menu File > Utilities > Import NinjaScript
- Select the downloaded file(s)

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Looks sweet Gumphrie. Good job and thanks.

[pdawg]

Gumphrie, Thanks so much. Exactly what I was looking for!

[jojojo]

Hello Gumphrie
Could you please explain a bid more in detail , how to use "alpha" and "draw" - method to generate this transparent color effect in general ?

Kind regs
Jojo

[Gumphrie]

Could you please explain a bid more in detail , how to use "alpha" and "draw" - method to generate this transparent color effect in general ?

Sure Jojo, I was referring to the "Alpha" and "Drawtype" in the RMMA indicator properties. The "DrawType" isn't related to the transparency, but to the indicator's ability to draw the MAs either as lines or as filled areas.

In the C# code generally, to set the transparency you take the colour you want to set the transparency on and use the following function :

Color.FromArgb(Alpha, inputColor)

Where Alpha is a value between 0-255, 255 being solid and 0 being invisible and inputColor is the standard colour you want to adapt such as "Color.Blue", "Color.Red", etc..

This use of the Color.FromArgb method like this with 2 arguments is just one of four possible overloads. Another use of it that I have deployed in ModHeikenAshi (and in the BBS indicator and others for the dot border colour) is to automatically create a colour which is the oposite of the chart background colour, useful if you want a 'border' or 'shadow' colour without having to worry about the user's settings for the chart background. Here is the relevant code for that:

byte bRed   = (byte)~(ChartControl.BackColor.R);
byte bGreen = (byte)~(ChartControl.BackColor.G);
byte bBlue  = (byte)~(ChartControl.BackColor.B);

Pen pen = new Pen(Color.FromArgb(bRed,bGreen,bBlue), ShadowWidth);

[jojojo]

Very good explanation. Helps again to the next steps of learning this amazing platform. I'm glad to join .Thank you and keep going on.
Jojo

[Gumphrie]

Sorry, that should be 0 - 255, rather than 0 -128 for the Alpha range, I'll edit the above post.

[zelli]

Gump

Thanks for Mod HA!!

Is it possible to have the "shadow color" added? With the standard NT H.A. the shadow can be set to "transparent" which allows the full candle to paint one solid color. This eliminates the black vertical shadow bar inside the candle.

Thanks again. Love your work!

Z

[Gumphrie]

Gump

Thanks for Mod HA!!

Is it possible to have the "shadow color" added? With the standard NT H.A. the shadow can be set to "transparent" which allows the full candle to paint one solid color. This eliminates the black vertical shadow bar inside the candle.

Thanks again. Love your work!

Z

Thanks. I can add an option to hide it / turn it off if you like? The "shadow color" is not editable at the moment because its auto-adjusting to the background color of you chart which is why you can't find it in properties. I was also thinking of changing it so it paints like a normal candle and works better on OHLC and HiLow bars. What do you think?

[pdawg]

Gumphrie,

I would like to see that option to hide the shadow color if possible.

Thanks'

P

[Gumphrie]

I've added the option in, please download from the first post.

I can see now that solves the OHLC and HiLoBar issue too, great!

[Rollins]

Gumphrie, I owe you one on this indicator, it is a great example of how to do some non standard stuff in NT.

Thanks a lot, can't tell you how much time it saved me!

Of course also thanks to Josh & KBJ and all other contributing members whose names I haven't mentioned

[Fulcrum]

Is anyone using the Heiken Ashi in NT with a smoothing capability? I see the NT HA in V6.5 can be "displaced" but no way to "smooth" it.

[Fulcrum]

In the enclosed link ( http://www.ensignsoftware.com/tips/tradingtips57.htm ) you while find an Aroon Indicator article which has the very last chart image as the image I have included. Does anyone know what the very bottom indicator is showing (with the red .800 value and the blue .200 value)...it looks like what may be a "smoothed" Heikin Ashi or Average Bar. Anyone have any idea how this indicator is formated?

[Fulcrum]

Here is an additional link that talks about the Heikin Ashi "smoothed" with the perfect example from a MT4 forex platform chart image from a "Teed63" posting (post #4)........ http://forum.vtsystems.com/index.php...=0&#entry33944

"Teed63" has also included a .zip file for the indicator already in a MQL format (post #8). Maybe someone here can make heads or tails from the .zip file included programming for this indicator.