TickCounter next to latest bar

[TimStone]

Hi there,

in NT7 i had an indicator which put the number of ticks directly next to the last bar. Im a coding n00b and played abit around with Ninjatrader8 tickcounter but it uses "DrawTextFixed" and i can only use 5 positions and none of those really helps?

Is there an easy line of code that the tick count at least gets displayed in the center of the chart on the right side instead of top or bottom.

thanks

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello TimStone,

Instead of using Draw.TextFixed(), you can use Draw.Text() and this would be in relation to the bar.

http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/draw_text.htm

Are you wanting this indicator to work historically or only for real-time bars?

If real-time only you can set Calculate.OnEachTick so OnBarUpdate updates for each tick.
Use an int variable to store the number of ticks.
Increment on trigger of OnBarUpdate and this will count how many times OnBarUpdate has triggered.
Set the Draw.Text() text to the value of the int variable using a tag unique to that bar.
(the tag could be something like "tag1"+CurrentBar to be unique to that bar)
Reset the variable on the first tick of a new bar (after a bar has closed).

http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/isfirsttickofbar.htm

If you are wanting this to work historically, you will need either TickReplay or a secondary series of 1 tick added.