How do I determine if a bar closes at the top 25% of the bars range?

[koganam]

Sandman...THANK YOU!!

I simply just changed the variable up and down color code to private instead of public and that did the trick! No additional coding required. You're the man! Thanks to everyone else as well for helping out.

If you had said that you want the colors hard-coded and not capable of being changed from the PropertyGrid, that is the answer that you would have been given.

You asked how to persist the chosen colors (impliedly changed from the PropertyGrid). You got the answer to the question that you asked.

[Volcom]

koganam, I'm afraid you lost me. All I know is that every time I logged into NT, this indicator would not save the up and down colors. It kept defaulting to Red for down and blank for up, none in which I chose. It was a pain to constantly have to change this for multiple symbols daily. Not sure if I could have explained in any more detail. Thanks to Sandman, this is now fixed.

[koganam]

koganam, I'm afraid you lost me. All I know is that every time I logged into NT, this indicator would not save the up and down colors. It kept defaulting to Red for down and blank for up, none in which I chose. It was a pain to constantly have to change this for multiple symbols daily. Not sure if I could have explained in any more detail. Thanks to Sandman, this is now fixed.

1. How were you changing the colors before now?
2. Can you still change the colors using that method? (i.e., without editing the file itself?

That is what we mean by hard-coding the colors.

[Volcom]

1) I was changing the colors in the indicator itself and when that didn't work, I tried changing them in the code with the same result.

2) The only way I can change the colors now is through the code and not the indicator. That option has now been removed since I changed the coding from public to private which I am fine with since this seemed to be the only thing that worked.

[koganam]

1) I was changing the colors in the indicator itself and when that didn't work, I tried changing them in the code with the same result.

2) The only way I can change the colors now is through the code and not the indicator. That option has now been removed since I changed the coding from public to private which I am fine with since this seemed to be the only thing that worked.

Well, then you were not lost after all?

You have just repeated what I said. Your values are hard-coded and cannot be changed from the PropertyGrid.

Appropos of nothing, making the property private is meaningless and redundant, because the colors have already been declared as private in the backing store when they were first created (in the "Variables" section). But, no matter. There are always many ways to write code, so as long as you like your results, that is all that matters.

[Volcom]

Well, then you were not lost after all?

You have just repeated what I said. Your values are hard-coded and cannot be changed from the PropertyGrid.

Appropos of nothing, making the property private is meaningless and redundant, because the colors have already been declared as private in the backing store when they were first created (in the "Variables" section). But, no matter. There are always many ways to write code, so as long as you like your results, that is all that matters.

Okay cool, that totally makes sense to me now on what was going on with this code and why it was doing what it was doing. Thanks! 👍🏼

[sandman]

volcom. Glad it worked out.

Your indicator colors the candlesticks in Panel1 but also opens a second panel. Don't know whether that is intentional on your part or not. Or if you fixed it already. If not, it's easy to fix. Go into your Code, under the section "Variables" and under the sub-section "protected override void Initialize()" add this line:

{
Overlay = true;
}

That will cause your indicator to then not open up in a second panel.

Currently your indicator defaults to calculate on BarClose=True. If you want to change that to False, add this line in the same section just underneath Overlay:

CalculateOnBarClose = false;

That will cause the candlestick bar to be colored while the bar is still in progress.

sandman

[Volcom]

Good eye Sandman! I always wondered why there was an empty second panel on the bottom. I input your code and had it removed. Thanks again!! :-)

[Bullywig]

I hope it's what you are wanting.

All it does it color the bars that close at the X top of the range or X bottom of the range (adjustable).

And you can choose the color of the up and down bars.

Hope you like it.

- D

Do you know if the Colored Scalp Bar indicator is available for NT8?

[starfishy]

Candle % indicator

Hi Darth... hoping you're still on this forum. I've been looking for an indicator that will show the close of candel within the top or bttom 25% of a candle and came across your thread with the aaScalpBar.cs zip download. Sadly I'm not a coder
Did you perhaps make an MT4 indicator from this?
Would so love to have one...

Starfishy
Cape Town
South Africa

[Darth_Trader]

for MT4

i'm sorry, i don't have MT4 at all. Is it downloadable/free? I'd write it for you.

I didn't realize I had so many problems with my original code. Reading through the list here makes me aware of them.

I've not picked it up in a while but will at least fix this and post it again once I test it out.

I'm not sure if NT made their own version for NT8 or not. I wrote this, hoping it would be a useful tool for coders to add onto with other bar drawing indicators. Does NT8 use the same coding language/protocol?

I wrote another I called the 'slither stop' which moves your stop loss to the bottom of "x-range bar'...so if its set to 5, the stop will be set to the lowest low of the last 5 bars. As each new bar is printed, if there is now a higher, lowest low, it will move the stop up to that level.

[Tirso]

Hola,
Llevo tiempo buscando un indicador como este para NT8, alguien sabe si existe.

Saludos,
Tirso

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