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Note: If you find bugs, have feature requests, or anything else, post in THIS thread.
This is a BETTER bar timer for NT.
This does the same thing the standard bar-timer that ships with NT does, except its better.
You can customize this one to be as subtle or obnoxious as you want it to be.
FONT CONTROL: It will allow you complete control over the text. This includes font style, font weight, text size, the color, etc.
FONT PLACEMENT: You can place it ANYWHERE on the screen. You can start with the origin points to include any of the 4 corners on the chart.
OFFSETS: Included with that standard placement, you can offset it from the edges by n-pixels. So after you place it, you can adjust it both horizontally AND vertically.
PRETEXT: I created this as I think the standard bar-timer takes up unnecessary space. I myself just like to see the clock-time, as it takes up less space. Here, you can leave it BLANK(default), or add in your own CUSTOM text. So if you like the standard timer, you could input "Time remaining = " for example, and it would be like the standard one. DO NOT USEescape characters, like backslashes in the pretext input field.
See image below for example of adding pretext.
NOTE: Installing this indicator will create a folder called "BTMM," that's where the indicator will be.
---EDIT - V5 10Mar2022---
I have had this on my PC for a long time, but didn't think it was worth the update. But this will condense the status messages on screen when the indicator is not in use(not connected to data, not intraday, etc), as shown in the image below. Minor change, may not be worth the download for most.
---EDIT - V4 20January2020---
As per suggestion of @locky, and wanting to minimize space(purpose of this indie), you can now toggle on independently, and in any combination, the display of Hours, Minutes or Seconds. E.g., No need to show hours for a sub-hour chart.
---EDIT - V3 19January2020---
There was a bug with this indicator NOT saving the text style in templates or a workspace. This bug should be fixed now. Apologies for inconvenience. Thanks to @mrlucky1x for finding this bug
---EDIT - V2 16January2020---
Version two of this indicator will have a box around the text. By default it will be set to transparent, so you won't see it unless you change the color. Opacity setting is also there so you can make the box color more/less transparent.
BetterBrick chart style to display BetterRenko charts with classic Renko bricks.
Just import into NT, and restart NT. You should then have a "BetterBrick" type available in the chart styles in the data series window. BetterRenko bars can use any type of chart style, but this style shows the bar with Renko bricks in addition to the wick data and the correct open value for the bar.
NT 6.5: NO
NT 7.0: Yes
V2 changes the way the "live" bar is drawn. It now draws the live bar as an OHLC bar until it closes.
August 8th, 2010
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aslan
Here is a Line Break chart with sticks and wicks. The chart shows the normal Line Break Type on the left and the Better Line Break type on the right.
You can join us on this thread for discussion about the line type usage.
This is version 7.1. [I inadvertantly deleted the original posting when I tried to update the line types...sad face]
To add this Data Series to your machine, download the file and Import it through NT's File Utilities. Then RESTART NinjaTrader. (Yes you have to restart because this is a Data Series, not an indicator). Once you've started back up, BetterLineBreak will show up in your Data Series Type options.
This is NT7 only. It took me longer than I wanted to figure out NT7, someone else will have to get an NT6.5 version running.
January 28th, 2011
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gordo
This is the NinjaTrader 8 version of BetterRenkoV2.
This Renko bar type is backtestable. It does not generate false "fill-in" bars. It maintains a true OHLC and displays properly with the Candlestick ChartStyle. If you want it to look like bricks, use the BetterBrick ChartStyle.
This is a tick-based bar, so initial loading can be slow. The NT8 "Break at EOD" feature is also supported, allowing bars to continue across session breaks.
Just import into NT, and restart NT. You should then have a "BetterRenko" type available in the intervals in the data series window. The brick size is specified in number of ticks.
New twist on Renko to fix some of the quirks of Renko. All data is real data, so should be able to backtest with these bars. A new bar style is also available as a different download called BetterBrick, but it is not required as CandleSticks or OHLC can be used.
V2 changes alignment of first bar to be mod brickSize. In NT65, this is first bar, in NT7 it is first bar of each session.
See forum thread for more information.
NT 6.5: Yes - does not support new bar at session boundary, or new bar style
NT 7.0: Yes
August 8th, 2010
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aslan
Version 1.1 September 12, 2018
This indicator is based on the original version of the Better Volume Indicator from https://www.emini-watch.com/. It identifies the following events relative to the selected lookback period:
Breakout or climax bars: A breakout or climax bar is a wide range high volume bar for which the the product "volume times range" is higher than for all preceeding bars of the lookback period.
Churn bars: A churn bar is a narrow range high volume bar for which the ratio "volume per range" is higher than for all preceeding bars of the lookback period.
Climax churn bars: A climax churn bar is a high volume bar that qualifies both as a climax bar and as a churn bar.
Low volume bars: A low volume bar is a bar which has a lower volume than for all preceeding bars of the lookback period.
The indicator uses two lookback periods. The larger lookback period identifies stronger climax and churn bars, the smaller lookback period points to weaker climax and churn bars and is used to identify low volume bars.
A breakout or climax bar may occur at different locations. It may start a trend as a breakout bar, it may indicate that an existing trend continues after price has consolidated or it may occur at the end of a trend and indicate that the trend is near exhaustion. This bar type is similar to classic types of gaps that may be found on daily charts. There are runaway gaps, continuation gaps and exhaustion gaps. Breakout or climax bars may be used as a subsitute for those gaps when trading smaller timeframes.
Relative Volume: When you use the BetterVolume indicator with intraday data, it is pretty much distorted at the beginning of the regular session. When compared to pre-session bars, all the bars in the beginning of the regular session look like high volume bars, which in turn leads to false signals. This behavior is corrected when the Better Volume indicator is applied to "relative volume" instead of "absolute volume". This version of the indicator allows for performing the Better Volume calculations on both absolute volume and relative volume.
Sound Alerts: The indicator comes with sound alerts.
Market Analyzer Column: I have included a market analyzer column with the install file. The market analyzer column will return bar codes for each type of signal: strong climax churn bar = 0, strong climax bar = 1, strong churn bar = 2, weak climax churn bar = 3, weak climax bar = 4, weak churn bar = 5, low volume bar = 6, upclose no signal bar = 7, downclose no signal bar = 8, doji no signal bar = 9. Based on these values you may define cell conditions and show the signals as text with background color on the market analyzer.
Update version 1.1: Bug removed. Sound alerts did not fire, because the path for the sound files had not been initialized.
Update version 1.3:: Holiday calendar updated for Relative Volume indicator, sound alerts now working on inactive charts.
Nota: The forum software has renamed the downloadable zip file to the false version number 1.0. Please disregard the version number of the zip file. The zip file contains the indicator version as specified above.
This is my modifications of the Better Volume Indicator to appear on the upper chart with the same colors appied to the price bars. See Better Volume Indicator for the color code legend.