Is it possible to plot the OHLC for every day automatically?

[Johnny]

Hello guys,

By hand, I tend to draw horizontal lines for the OHLC values for each single day. Having now been away from the market for 15 days, I found myself wondering if there's a way this could be plotted automatically?

Or would a custom indicator be needed to be made for this purpose?

Thanks.

Johnny

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hello Johnny,

Yes, you can use the CurrentDayOHL/PriorDayOHLC indicators for this purpose. You can find them in the Indicator menu of the chart.

[Johnny]

That's a fast answer, Jason. Many thanks! : )

First, I used the PriorDayOHLC and was puzzled why it was wrong, but then realize it plots the prior day OHLC on the current day, so that's the reason.

So, I moved on to the other you mentioned, but it doesn't seem to work quite the same way. It plots multiple short horizontal lines. Per hour?

Is there a way I can get the values from PriorDayOHLC to plot for the actual day they're referring to? Perhaps I can accomplish that by adjusting the Current Day indicator?

Because the PDay OHLC does exactly what I want, except it's on the wrong day.

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

The CurrentDayOHL should show you the Open, High and Low of the day. It does not include the Close price. You can view the last traded price (Close price) using the black price marker on the price axis.

[Johnny]

Thanks again, Jason.

Sadly, the CurrentDayOHL does not accomplish what I want. I could do without the Close price.

I would like the the same lines from PriorDayOHLC, but plotted on the the actual prior day which they're referring to and not on the current day.

Not possible?

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Unfortunately this is not supported.

[Johnny]

Okay. Thanks anyway.

Maybe this would be possible to implement in the future?

Should be a pretty small adjustment of the PriorDayOHLC indicator.

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

I will forward your suggestion to development. Thank you for your feedback.

[Johnny]

Thanks.

[koganam]

Thanks again, Jason.

Sadly, the CurrentDayOHL does not accomplish what I want. I could do without the Close price.

I would like the the same lines from PriorDayOHLC, but plotted on the the actual prior day which they're referring to and not on the current day.

Not possible?

PriorDayOHLC with a negative Displacement of the appropriate number of bars?

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Yes, this is possible but it will not plot the lines properly. If I use a negative displacement of -740 at this moment. It will shift the lines 740 bars to the left. However yesterdays session now shows two sets of OHLC lines. The day before that as well and so on.

It would work properly if the current session has the same amount of price bars as previous sessions.

[Johnny]

Hi,

Any news here?

I just downloaded NT 8 and as far as I can tell, there is no indicator supporting this very simple task.

I simply want a horisontal line from start to finish for the Open, High, Low, Close for each trading session.

I currently use the "Current Day OHL" and it works okay for the Open price (although I could do without the line from one session to the next), but the High/Low values are plotted at intervals throughout the day...

Also, no Close line.

I imagine this very simple indicator is something a lot of traders would be interested in having on their charts.

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hello Johnny,

Unfortunately we do not have such an indicator available by default. You would have to create a custom indicator that plots horizontal lines each session at the OHLC. I will forward your suggestion to support such an indicator to development.

[Johnny]

Hi, Jason,

I did get access to such an indicator thanks to a very helpful fellow trader, but I'd prefer not to use 3rd party indicators in case it could reduce performance or cause crashes.

It's a rather simple indicator, I think, so would be great if this could materialize.

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

The suggestion to support such an indicator by default has been added to the list of possible future enhancements and is assigned to SFT-2840.