Can I add existing indicators to an indicator I am creating?

July 18th, 2011, 04:35 AM

futuretrader

I haven't seen that but it seems a good idea in an indicator that combines several others like yours. Though in your case I doubt anyone would want to play around with the ichi parameters - I think that could drive you mad.

Here is what mine looks like now as I have not cleaned it up yet. So it's rather busy at the moment. But I plan on removing most of those things @ the bottom.

Since I don't have any plot options at the moment, and I'm not sure if I'm going to add them, it is only going to be the different lengths for each indicator available. So it's not very many settings on there.

July 18th, 2011, 04:46 AM

forrestang

Just to clarify, do you mean that I can leave my variables the same way they are declared in my 'variables' section up top. And just change the name down at the bottom?

From This:

Code

[Browsable(false)]	// this line prevents the data series from being displayed in the indicator properties dialog, do not remove
        [XmlIgnore()]		// this line ensures that the indicator can be saved/recovered as part of a chart template, do not remove
        public DataSeries TrendState
        {
            get { return trendState; }
        }

To this:

Code

[Browsable(false)]	// this line prevents the data series from being displayed in the indicator properties dialog, do not remove
        [XmlIgnore()]		// this line ensures that the indicator can be saved/recovered as part of a chart template, do not remove
        public DataSeries 1_TrendState
        {
            get { return trendState; }
        }

Didn't see this post. No, you'd need to add the Gui Display name description:

Code

        [Category("Speech")]
        [Description("Master:  Enables speech synthesis alerts and installs toolstrip toggle.")]
        [Gui.Design.DisplayName("1. Master for Speech")]
        public bool UseSpeech
        {
            get { return speech; }
            set { speech = value; }
        }

July 18th, 2011, 04:49 AM

futuretrader

Didn't see this post. No, you'd need to add the Gui Display name description:

Code

        [Category("Speech")]
        [Description("Master:  Enables speech synthesis alerts and installs toolstrip toggle.")]
        [Gui.Design.DisplayName("1. Master for Speech")]
        public bool UseSpeech
        {
            get { return speech; }
            set { speech = value; }
        }

Ah cool!

I didn't know about that option. So it's just adding this one line to my parameter blocks for each one I want to rename?

Code

 [Gui.Design.DisplayName("1. Master for Speech")]

July 18th, 2011, 06:51 AM

forrestang

New idea......

The trading I'm doing is partially dependent on pullbacks to the 13ma. And attached is a picture of what my Market Analyzer looks like now.

Right now I will usually consider a pb complete if price gets a minimum of 2 tics within that ma to begin to look for a trade. So typically once it gets there, I start putting my cross hair on that bar, and looking at the values of the H/L of that bar and the 13ema to see if it's right.

I'm thinking I can add that in the indicator, so that when price is within 2 tics of that ma, I can have it displayed in Market Analyzer.

Then the problem would be if I use a different value for a different instrument. CL for example I would give it 4 tics since it moves faster.

Hmmmm..........?

Idea..... I could just add that condition in the market anaylzer via the 'cell conditions' block by adding the 13 ma as a new column. The problem would be that I coudln't set it for each instruemnt.

Also... it would trigger EVERY time price was near it. Which isn't all bad, but I would like it to feel a bit more 'integrated.'

So I'm thinking the logic will be using a flag to decide when to NOT ignore price being near the 13ema.......

Code

If (TrendState == True)   //price makes a New LL/HH beyond the blue/red cloud.  Logic already built
{
   Flag = true  //flag so we know to begin looking for a pb to 13ma.  Logic here already as well
}

If (Flag == true)
{
   If(price == 13ema)   //build in tolerance here as well plus/minus tic size
   {
      pbToEma[0] = true   //This is the alert that I will have built into a dataSeries for Market Analyzer
   }
}

If(pbToEma[0] == true)
{
   If(TrendState == False)   //trend no longer happening, so we no longer care if price approaches ma, and time to reset
   {
      Flag = false   //reset the flag, so we are no longer looking for pb to 13ema
   }
}

July 18th, 2011, 07:04 AM

forrestang

Here is what mine looks like now as I have not cleaned it up yet. So it's rather busy at the moment. But I plan on removing most of those things @ the bottom.

If you serialize the plots by using code, you can remove the original plot options by adding the line

Code

PlotsConfigurable = false;

to the Initialize() section.

July 18th, 2011, 07:10 AM

@Fat Tails

Would that mean that I couldn't add the configurable option to be able to adjust the plots on the indicator itself at the bottom? I planned on adding that in at some point.

July 18th, 2011, 07:21 AM

forrestang

@ Fat Tails

Would that mean that I couldn't add the configurable option to be able to adjust the plots on the indicator itself at the bottom? I planned on adding that in at some point.

The PlotsConfigurable option has nothing to do with what will be displayed on your chart.

NinjaTrader has an in-built serialization of plots. This serialization allows you to select the colors, dashstyle and plotstyle of your plots in a way that it can be saved as part of a template or part of a workspace.

However, if you want more options, such as down colors and up colors, you need to do the serialization manually and you do not need the in-built serialization any more. When I code indicators, I

-> either use the in-built serialization (do nothing)
-> or I serialize all plots via code (define properties for up- and down color, plotstyle, dashstyle and plotwidth) and set PlotsConfigurable = false;

Just try and see what happens, your PC will not explode.

July 19th, 2011, 03:31 AM

forrestang

Ah cool!

I didn't know about that option. So it's just adding this one line to my parameter blocks for each one I want to rename?

Code

 [Gui.Design.DisplayName("1. Master for Speech")]

@futuretrader
Didn't do much with my script yesterday. I probably won't till this weekend. But I did add that line in just to try it out.

Added it to the first three user inputs for the part of my script that references the ZZ indicator.

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