The PriceActionSwing indicator for NinjaTrader 7.0 calculates swings in different ways and visualize them. It shows swing information like the swing length, duration, volume,... It contains a lot of features. It is also useable on the Market Analyzer.
The package contains 3 indicators: PriceActionSwing
- standard swing indicator with visualization and swing information PriceActionSwingPro
- Draw automatically Fibonacci extensions and retracements
- Calculate a swing statistic
- Calculate and visualize ABC patterns
- Risk management (automatically for ABC patterns)
- Calculate and visualize divergence based on an indicator
- GomCD (uncomment the "region GomCD" parts in the source code) PriceActionSwingOscillator
- swing trend visualization
- developing swing volume (repainting)
Useful to see/trade price action with HH, HL in uptrends and LL, LH in downtrends and patterns like double top/bottom, triangle,…
Version 17 - June 5 2014
- Changed the code structure for simpler access from strategies and other indicators If you use PriceActionSwing within other files, make sure you have a backup from the old version
- Added swing tick and swing percentage calculation
- Added swing calculation based on close values
- Added seperate swing price output
- Added developing GomCD output since the last swing
- Improved risk management items
- Added risk management tab
- Added different alerts
Version 18 - June 15 2014
- Fixed minimum swing size to < 1 for percentage settings
Starting from version 17 NinjaTrader 6.5 will not longer be supported. Starting from version 19 NinjaTrader 7.0 will not longer be supported get NT8 version here
COMPATIBILITY:
NinjaTrader 6.5: NO
NinjaTrader 7.0: YES
NinjaTrader 8.0: NO, see NT8 version here
Options for the Pivot indicators: Floor pivots, pivot range, midpivots, floor pivots wide, Jackson Zones, Fibonacci pivots, Camarilla pivots, VWAP of the prior session.
Chart settings: Please set the right side margin under chart properties to 200 to allow for correct display of the labels. The colors are better adapted to dark chart backgrounds.
Session templates: The indicators require the use of a correct session template for the instrument shown on the chart. With an ETH template only ETH pivots can be displayed. For displaying RTH pivots, it is recommend to use a multi-session template that divides the day into the night session, regular session and after-session.
Use of daily data on intraday charts: The 3 pivot indicators are designed to load daily data, if the option for Settlement/Close is set to “Daily Bars”. This the data used by the indicator:
"Calculate from session" = "DailyBars": Pivots are entirely calculated from daily data.
"Calculate from session" = "ETH" & "Settlement/Close" = "DailyBars": High and low are taken from the full intraday sessions. The close or settlement price is taken from daily data.
"Calculate from session" = "RTH" & "Settlement/Close" = "DailyBars": High and low are taken from the regular intraday sessions. The close or settlement price is taken from daily data.
"Calculate from session" = "ETH" & "Settlement/Close" = "Intraday Close": High and low are taken from the full intraday sessions. The close is the last price traded for the full session.
"Calculate from session" = "RTH" & "Settlement/Close" = "Intraday Close": High and low are taken from the regular intraday sessions. The close is the last price traded for the regular session.
Auto setting for the 3 pivot indicators: The Auto setting will preselect ETH for FOREX and all CME currency futures, but preselect RTH for all other instruments.
VWAP: The VWAP of the prior day is always calculated from intraday data. Depending on the chart resolution it can be a few ticks off the correct value.
GLOBEX holiday sessions with settlement next day: The indicator is preconfigured for Globex holiday sessions without settlement for trade date next day or later. These trade dates are President’s Day, Martin-Luther-King Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labour Day and Thanksgiving. The indicators will display double day sessions for these days for all GLOBEX and NYMEX traded instruments.
Update Jan 23 2011: Globex Holiday Calendar for 2011. Holiday sessions will only be applied to Globex instruments. Price markers - only available for zone width 0 - are now correctly formatted for US interest rate futures and FOREX.
Update June 5, 2011: New signature for GetNextBeginEnd() implemented.
Update June 21, 2011: The indicator now works with half-pip FOREX feeds. Indicator dialogue box improved.
Update July 20, 2011: Serialization of the plots changed.
Update September 13, 2011: Zones were not plotted correctly, when indicator was set to "UserDefinedValues".
Update December 12, 2011: Weekly and monthly pivots added. Levels R5, S5 added. Some labels changed. Label size is now adjustable. Globex Holiday Calendar for 2012 added.
Update July 26, 2012: Weekly and monthly pivot zones could be displayed for incomplete periods in DailyBars mode. Indicators now check whether the data for the prior week / prior month is complete.
Update December 13, 2013: Indicators entirely redesigned. Holiday calendar added for 2014.
Update December 28, 2014: Holiday calendar added for 2015. Price markers improved for US interest rate futures.
Detailed explanations how to use the indicator can be found here:
The indicator displays the Volume Weighted Average Price of the selected session. It can be used on all types of charts.
You can apply the indicators to charts with several intraday sessions. You can then select via indicator panel, for which session the VWAP shall be shown.
ETH session: The VWAP will be calculated for the full session, if ETH is selected via indicator dialogue.
RTH session: It is possible to display the VWAP for the RTH session or the night session. Set indicator to RTH and select the number of the session, for example "First" for the night session and "Second" for the RTH session.
RTH multi: The VWAP will be displayed starting from the open of the RTH session as specified and then continue through the after session.
Volatility Bands: The indicators has three different modes to calculate volatility bands. For each of the modes multipliers can be selected.
Variance_Price: The variance is calculated from the selected input values of the price bars and the last known value for the VWAP within the current session. This way of calculating the bands is similar to calculating Bollinger Bands with a variable period starting with the first bar of the session.
Variance_Distance: The variance is calculated from the selected input values of the price bars and the value for the VWAP corresponding to price. It is a variance of the vertical distance of price from VWAP. This method corrects for a trend and produces slightly narrower bands on a trending day.
Session_Range: The quarter range of the current session is used as a measure of volatility instead of the standard deviation.
Public Holidays: For Globex instruments the indicator will display the ETH VWAP for the two-day-session including a public holiday. The indicator is preconfigured for the Globex holiday calendar.
Colors: Different colors can be selected for rising and falling VWAP. Also colors and opacities can be selected for the areas between the inner bands, middle bands and outer bands.
Update Jan 23, 2011: Globex holiday calendar for 2011 added. Holiday sessions will only be applied to Globex instruments. Indicators now also work on tick and volume charts.
Update May 17, 2011: New signature for GetNextBeginEnd() implemented.
Update June 15, 2011: VWAP can now be displayed for RTH and after-session, see option RTH-multi. Three different types of VWAP bands added.
Update July 26, 2011: SessionVWAP uses (high + low + open + close) / 4 for higher accuracy. Adapted to different plot styles.
Update January 25, 2012: Globex holiday calendar for 2012 added. Small bug removed, which had affected the plot colors.
Update February 23, 2013: Plot recoded & CPU efficiency improved, Globex holiday calendar for 2013 added.
Update March 30, 2013: Algorithm improved for both speed and accuracy. VWAP start time can be selected.
Update April 11, 2013: Plot modified for compatibility with charts built from multiple bar series.
Update May 10, 2013: Bug removed, which led to occasional false identification of the RTH session on charts built from ticks.
Update December 9, 2013: Holiday calendar added for 2014.
Update December 28, 2014: Holiday calendar added for 2015. Price markers improved for US interest rate futures.
1. Added new SPLIT session mode, that will show AH and RTH profiles together in one chart. Works with other types as well.
2. Added Display profile levels such as Trading Session High, Trading Session Low, Mid, VPOC, Value Area High and Value Area Low
3. Added IB minutes parameter to allow you to set initial balance of your preference. IB parameter is turned off for AH session. IB won’t show if you have bar set to more than IB minutes.
4. Enhanced Developing VPOC function. Displays now straight progressing line for clear visibility.
5. Added Naked Vpoc levels with an option to display closed naked vpocs
6. Added Naked Close (GAP) levels with an option to display closed GAPS
7. Added option to display the naked level date and price level to the right panel
8. Added Summary section below the Profile that displays total profile volume with an option to format kilo, million and no formatting.
9. Added Summary section below the Profile that also display Initial Balance range and Daily range.
10. Added option to compute profiles for all bars on the chart vs on screen bars. This is important for naked levels in the past computation and display on screen without a need to squeeze the chart to naked level day.
Updated 05/21 :
Fixed IB settings for 24/7 & RTH Template;
[IB] summary level display adjustment dynamically to the top of the range.
Updated 05/22 :
Upgraded to GOMi's 4.6 version- Thanks to TimeTrade@BMT
Added a separate Pen style for dVPOC.
Updated 05/23 :
Fixed issue with the price display for currency and Bond markets
Updated 05/25 :
Added option to turn the status message off <8.13>
For this to work, additionally download and compile Hot Key Manager file from here GomHotKeyManager
Updated 05/26 :
Fixed Serialization problem for Fonts
Updated 05/27 :
Added toolbar buttons to set profile attributes.
Added option to show IB for overnight session
Added option to set color for summary text
Added option to set color for naked level text
Added option to show Continuous VA/VPOC/VWAP
Updated 05/28 :
Fixed the screen flicker issue
Updated 08/21 :
Attempt to fix performance problem reported during the RTH session start
March 9th, 2023 05:21 PM MONICAP hello, and thanks for your time developing and sharing this indicator. i want to ask if this could be available for NT8
also. thank you
September 16th, 2022 07:30 PM TomTownsend Very helpful, thank you, and for all you do!!!
February 19th, 2019 06:43 AM Anand Jagdeo good morning. I am fairly new to trading and would like to use this indicator. am i supposed to change the dates for the
se holidays to the current year. Please advise. Seems like a pretty good indicator if applied properly. Thanks
Anand
June 9th, 2017 11:10 AM mercyj does anyone know why I can't set the autoscale to FALSE? it's greyed out. and the pivots are all wacko on the chart
February 25th, 2017 12:27 PM essiar Not sure what I am doing wrong here, I have imported .cs files previously. I am trying to install ALTOGomMP.cs. I alread
y have GomCD, GomCDSMA_UpDown, GomDeltaVol_UpDown and GomRecorderIndicator in my list of indicators. I keep getting erro
r msg CS0246 which states there is a dll file missing. So when I try to install GomMP2.1 I get an error msg stating I ha
ve custom ninjascript files on my pc that have programming errors. So I delete ALTOgom.cs from the bin. I go to import G
omMP2.1 again and I get another error msg saying Archive may contain duplicate method names that already exist or there
is a required file missing. I have been using Ninja for 10 years now and have never run into this issue. Suggestions?
October 13th, 2016 03:28 PM CoCo
August 7th, 2016 07:37 AM dalebru Outstanding, thanks to both you and gomi.