For those of us who would like to use synthetic symbols created from combinations of multiple symbols, on which we would like to run indicators and strategies that recognize the OHLC of a synthetic user-defined symbol or indicator, we are severely limited. At the present the best we can do is create a custom synthetic indicator that produces 2-4 plots to simulate HL or OHLC, then run duplicated sets of analysis, one on one plot to deal with for example highs, and one on the other plot to deal with lows.
If only we could create a synthetic OHLC custom symbol or indicator that all other indicators and strategies could reference like a regular symbol, the code those indicators and strategies contain could deal with Highs and lows without having to ourselves create so much duplicated analysis by having to treat them independently from single plots, once for the highs and once for the lows, which adds immense overhead time to development and runs into software like sharkindicator's Bloodhound and Blackbird that are designed to operate efficiently on OHLC symbols with logic that gets much more complicated if required to isolate and write separate logic for each of the High and low plots.
I'm gratefully appealing to Ninjatrader to open an entire world, now severely crippled, by allowing users to create and store their own custom OHLC symbols and indicators. Yes I know that its possible to create a chart that provides a visual semblance of such for purely discretionary trading, but not the functional reality of OHLC synthesized series, whether they be regarded as a symbol (at best a primary default symbol) or at least an OHLC indicator for other indicators and strategies to efficiently reference.
Should I entertain any serious hope that Ninjatrader regards this as a worthy undertaking and is soon planning such an expanded capability, one which I believe will allow retail Ninjatrader customers to discover and better survive the insights of the professional traders who take their money?
All the best to a great company with the world's best support, and for boldly rewriting your code to raise the standard of functionality your users need compete with banksters running sophisticated models which we need to emulate to survive.
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