Update: I got tired of needing to go into the indy in order to change font and color, so added some buttons to mod them for each note in the form.
This is a very simple indicator that doesn't do a lot. It simply adds up to 10 customizable notes to a side panel of user defined width. I am posting it because it illustrates how to place a button on the toolstrip and how to call an external form from said button.
With multi-timeframe charts a refresh of one indicator cause all real time indicators to reconfigure as historic indicators, causing the plots to change slightly. Being able to call a form from an indicator allows the user to change the parameters of that indicator w/o disturbing any other indicators.
I have attached the indicator and will post the VS project files if anyone is interested. To install the indicator, extract NotesPanelFull.zip to your Custom folder w/o NinjaTrader running. Start NT and import NotesPanel. Because it is a .dll based form you will need to edit the indicator and right click in the window to Add NotesEditor.dll reference. Compile the indicator and add it to a chart.
When you want to change a note, News @ 10?, just click the Notes button on the right of the toolstrip. Change your notes and OK, or just leave to Form open. Unlike other NT forms, it is not modal.
Exported: PowerLanguage 3.0 - MC 7 build 4510
The original code was written by Capital Evolution, LLC. and I've found it on a public website. I've done some changes to satisfy my own needs.
The P&L is presented via 3 colored lines and showing how a strategy is performing through the day.
Red - lowest negative P&L for the day
Yellow - highest positive P&L for the day
Blue - running P&L for the day
Special thanks to Saroj, there are no superlatives sufficient to describe how her genius, dedication, selflessness, and compassion for all BMT members have taken this indicator...at this point I must digress because I am not sure I feel comfortable using the word "indicator", as it somehow demeans this work of art in a manner analogous to stating the Mona Lisa is a mere "painting". Accordingly, I retract and rephrase...her genius, dedication, selflessness, and compassion for all BMT members have taken this work of art to levels heretofore unknown or even imagined by retail and institutional traders alike.
Multi-Time Range Background to color multiple sessions. Modification of the canned indicator. Was tired of having to add and setup 3 indicators on every chart to separately highlight the lunch, afternoon and overnight sessions. Zip file contains cpp and dll files.
Here is an interesting indicator for placing notes on a chart. Credit goes to Snaphook on Ninja Forum. It can be dropped on the main panel or a panel of its own. You can write up to 10 comments in various color and font sizes.
I find it very useful to list my rules as a reminder on my trading chart.
The attached example screenshot shows Roger Felton's entry and money management rules discussed in his last BMT webinar. Here I have used a Panel Left Edge offset of 530.
I am posting in BMT Elite Section to show Roger's trading rules, otherwise the indicator is public on Ninja Forum downloads.
FiveMinuteOdysseySignals_v2 is the indicator I refer to and describe in my thread, https://nexusfi.com/elite-trading-journals/8035-mwinfreys-5-minute-odyssey.html#post94262. This indicator encapsulates rules 1, 2, and 4 as described in the quick summary of that thread. There is accommodation for rule 3 stuff in the indicator but isn't implemented other that a simple filter. However, anyone knowing how to program can find that portion of the code and add some filters if you like.
The indicator can be used for backtesting and accounts for intrabar wiggle. I won't go into detail on how I did that. You can view the code and see for yourself. The main thing is that you understand that what you get in backtesting is what you get forward testing. Of course slippage in live trading exists but not accounted for with this indicator.
You can only use this indicator with COBC = true. Trying to use it set to false does not work. I coded a fail-safe so you can't set it to false.
Parameter Description:
1. You can set up to 4 different trading sessions.
2. Either show PNL or not.
3. Use a trailing stop if you want which triggers with one tick of profit and trails behind profit by the amount you have set for the stoploss.
Indicator colors CAN NOT be customized. Encourage you to use this indicator as-is to prove a concept before you start asking for customizable colors. I really don't intend to spend the time making it any prettier than it is. So, please adjust the colors on your chart so you can see the graphics that I use. Their colors are white, black, red, lime, and blue. However, if you have ideas for rules then please forward them to me and I'll take a look.
RSI with Volatility Bands formula by Manning Stoller
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Note that one have to adjust the indicator for each market, since each market has a different momentum "mean". The indicator in the picture is adjusted for the CL where it has a pretty good fit. Only on very high momentum should the RSI have a clean breakout of the volatility bands. Otherwise it should as best as possible be fitted so that RSI is accurately "kissing" the bands on high momentum.
Since markets have a tendency to fall quicker than rising, the factor for the lower volatility band should be greater than the upper.
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