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The indicator can be used to display the opening hours of the Tokyo, London and New York FOREX markets. For each of the three FOREX markets a different background color can be selected. For the overlapping hours the background colors are blended.
Below are listed the default settings for the opening hours, which are user selectable. Please keep in mind that you have to use the appropriate time zones, when entering the opening hours.
Tokyo: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM TST (Tokyo Standard Time)
London: 7:00 AM - 4:30 PM GMT (Greenwich Standard Time) or BST (British Summertime, from March to October)
New York: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST (US Eastern Standard Time) or EDT (Eastern Daylight Time, from March to November)
There is no daylight saving time in Japan. Therefore the Tokyo/London overlap is about two hours in summer, but only one hour in winter. The London/New York overlap is typically three and a half hours. However, London and New York observe different daylight saving schedules. During the last two weeks of March and during the first week of November, New York is on summertime while London is on standard time. During these three weeks the overlap is increased to four and a half hours.
The indicator handles the conversion of the trading hours of the three major FOREX markets automatically.
Update September 1, 2013 : Bug removed, indicator did not work correctly on charts built from tick data.
Update December 5, 2014: Option added to change color and opacity for off-session times.
Update April 22, 2015: Code simplified.
The Hourly Pivots indicator applies the calculation used for daily floor pivots to intraday time frames. The indicator displays pivots for any selectable period of N minutes. All pivots are calculated from the high, low and close of the prior N-minute period. The pivots can be displayed as floor pivots, wide pivots or Fibonacci pivots. The indicator further plots the pivot range, which is a value area derived from the prior N-minute period.
The default setting of the indicator is 60 minutes. With default settings the indicator will display hourly pivots including the Main Pivot PP, Central Pivot CP, Directional Pivot DP, Pivot Range, R1, R2, R3, R4 S1, S2, S3 and S4. The first period always starts with the daily session break. Depending on the period selected, the last period of the session may terminate before completion. It will not carry over to the first period of the next session.
Pivot range: The pivot range is the range between CP and DP. It is a symmetrical range around the main pivot PP.
Prior high, low and close: The indicator also displays the high, low and close for the prior N-minute period. These levels often act as support or resistance for the consecutive N-minute period.
Pivot formulas:
All options: H = prior day high, L = prior day low, C = prior day close, X = H - L
Main Pivot: P = (H+L+C)/3
Central Pivot: CP = (H+L)/2
Directional Pivot: DP = 2*P - CP
Floor Pivots: P = (H+L+C)/3, R1 = 2*P - L, S1 = 2*P - H, R2 = P + X, S2 = P - X, R3 = R1 + X, S3 = S1 - X, R4 = R3 + (P-L), S4 = S3 - (H-P)
Wide Pivots: P = (H+L+C)/3, R1 = 2*P - L, S1 = 2*P - H, R2 = P + X, S2 = P - X, R3 = R2 + X, S3 = S2 - X, R4 = R3 + X, S4 = S3 - X
Fibonacci Pivots: R1 = P + 0.382*X, S1 = P - 0.382*X, R2 = P + 0.618*X, S2 = P - 0.618*X, R3 = P + X, S3 = P - X, R4 = P + 1.382*X, S4 = P - 1.382*X
The indicator calculates pivots from any selectable period of N minutes. The first period starts with the session break. Depending on the indicator period selected the last period of the session can be an odd period. The pivots of the first period will not be calculated from the odd period, but from the full period deducted from the session break.
The default setting of the indicator is 60 minutes. With default settings the indicator will display hourly pivots including the main pivot PP, R1, R2, S1 and S2. Further levels can be added as an option.
The indicator is an easy to understand example of a multitimeframe indicator, as it loads a secondary bar series of 1-min bars, which is used to calculate the intraday pivots. The pivots will therefore always be calculated from a period of N minutes, not depending on the primary bars shown on the chart. If set to COBC = false, the pivot lines may show sligthly earlier, if applied to fast bars plotting during the first minute of the session.
Update January 21, 2012: Pivot range added. The pivots can now be aligned to the start of the trading day or the start of each session as per session template.
Update January 22, 2012: Bug removed. Please reinstall indicator.
Update February 23, 2014: The indicator did not work with datafeeds that do not plot a bar every minute during periods of lesser liquidity. Changed the architecture of the indicator and recoded it entirely.
Update April 28, 2018: The indicator was modified to allow for display of 1-minute pivots.
The indicator displays the current open, the initial balance (IB) and upper and lower range bands that are calculated by adding and subtracting fractions of the initial balance to the IB high and IB low.
You can only use this indicator with an appropriate session template. The opening time will align itself to the start time of the RTH session, as specified via session template. The hybrid setting assumes that you want to use the 3rd intraday session as RTH session for FOREX and currency futures and the second session for all other instruments.
Example ES: Select a session template with the following sessions: Session 1 (night session) 15:30 - 8:30 Central Time, Session 2 (RTH) 8:30 - 15:15 Central Time. Select second session for opening range.
Select length of opening period: The length of the opening range can be selected via indicator dialogue box The default setting is 60 minutes.
Select Offset: With an offset of 00:00, the indicator aligns to the start of the selected session. If you enter a positive value for the offset, the opening range will be shifted forward from the session start. For example if you open a chart for ES with the session template US CME Index Futures, then the session (and the trading day) starts at 5:00 PM Central Time. To display an opening range for the regular session, you need to enter an offset of 15:30, because the regular session starts 15 hours and 30 minutes after the start of the trading day.
Multipliers for range bands: The multipliers for the upper and lower range bands can also be changed. The default settings for the bands are 0.5, 1 and 2, meaning that the first upper band is built from the IB high by adding half of the IB range, and similar for the other bands.
Developing range: Prior to the completion of the initial balance, the indicator plots the developing range in gray to show that the range is still incomplete.
Night session or pre-session range: The indicator also has an option to display the full night session, European or Asian session range. This feature is not used with the default settings. I did not add it on purpose, it was already part of the opening range indicator, and it was easier to leave it than to remove it.
European Session Range: You can select start and end time of the European Session in CET (Central European Time). The European Session is pre-configured for the time between 8:00 AM and 1:00 PM CET.
Asian Session Range: You can select start and end time of the Asian Session in TST (Tokyo Standard Time). The Asian Session is pre-configured for the time between 9:00 AM and 3:00 PM TST.
Update June 2, 2011: New signature for GetNextBeginEnd() implemented.
Update June 11, 2011: Small bug removed, indicator did not display opening range and pre-session range correctly during the training period (first bars of the chart, after scrolling to the left horizontally).
Update June 21, 2011: The indicator now works with half-pip FOREX feeds. Indicator dialogue box improved.
Update July 25, 2011: Serialization of the plots and indicator dialogue box changed.
Update January 24, 2012: Offset added, opening period no longer needs to be aligned to session start.
Update February 19, 2012: Option added to cut off the opening range at the next session break.
Update October 6, 2013: Minor bug removed, offset was not applied correctly on tick charts, when indicator was set to COBC = false.
Update October 24, 2013: Drop down property added for European and Asian Time Zone
Update December 8, 2013: Indicator partly recoded and custom plot added.
Indicator will only run on NT 7.0.1000.5 or later.
The indicator displays the current open, the initial balance (IB) and upper and lower range bands that are calculated by adding and subtracting fractions of the initial balance to the IB high and IB low. This version is a multi-timeframe (MTF) version of the standard Initial Balance Range Bands V42 indicator. The indicator adds a second minute bar series to the chart, which is used to calculate the initial balance. It has the following advantages over the standard version:
For tick, range and volume charts: The standard indicator may not display the initial balance correctly, if the last bar expands the initial balance and closes after the opening period. The MTF version of the indicator will display the initial balance correctly, even if the primary bar series does not contain the necessary information for its calculation. An example is shown on the chart attached.
Use with minute charts: You want to use this indicator with minute charts, if the opening period is not an integer multiple of the bar period. Example: You trade 7 min charts and your opening period is 30 minutes.
You can only use this indicator with an appropriate session template. The opening time will align itself to the start time of the RTH session, as specified via session template. The hybrid setting assumes that you want to use the 3rd intraday session as RTH session for FOREX and currency futures and the second session for all other instruments.
Example ES: Select a session template with the following sessions: Session 1 (night session) 15:30 - 8:30 Central Time, Session 2 (RTH) 8:30 - 15:15 Central Time. Select second session for opening range.
Select length of opening period: The length of the period for establishing the initial balance can be selected via indicator dialogue box. The default setting is 60 minutes.
Select Offset: With an offset of 00:00, the indicator aligns to the start of the selected session. If you enter a positive value for the offset, the opening range will be shifted forward from the session start. For example if you open a chart for ES with the session template US CME Index Futures, then the session (and the trading day) starts at 5:00 PM Central Time. To display an opening range for the regular session, you need to enter an offset of 15:30, because the regular session starts 15 hours and 30 minutes after the start of the trading day.
Multipliers for range bands: The multipliers for the upper and lower range bands can also be changed. The default settings for the bands are 0.5, 1 and 2, meaning that the first upper band is built from the IB high by adding half of the IB range, and similar for the other bands.
Display regular open or one-minute-range: The indicator allows to either display the regular open or the range of the first minute of trading after the start time selected for the opening range.
Developing range: Prior to the completion of the opening range, the indicator plots the developing range in gray to show that the range is still incomplete.
Night session or pre-session range: The indicator also has an option to display the full night session, European or Asian session range. This feature is not used with the default settings. I did not add it on purpose, it was already part of the opening range indicator, and it was easier to leave it than to remove it.
European Session Range: You can select start and end time of the European Session in CET (Central European Time). The European Session is pre-configured for the time between 8:00 AM and 1:00 PM CET.
Asian Session Range: You can select start and end time of the Asian Session in TST (Tokyo Standard Time). The Asian Session is pre-configured for the time between 9:00 AM and 3:00 PM TST.
Update July 25, 2011: Serialization of the plots and indicator dialogue box changed.
Update December 8, 2013: Indicator entirely recoded. Offset added, opening period no longer needs to be aligned to the session start. Drop down property added for time zones. Custom plot added.
Update March 15, 2015: Regular open and minute range were drawn back to start of trading day on tick charts. Bug removed.
The download file contains two indicators which can be used to explore the average range and volume of any intraday time period over a selected lookback period. The average takes into account the day of the week. For example the average volume displayed for any bar period on Wednesdays is only calculated from data taken from prior Wednesdays.
With default settings the indicators calculate average range and average volume from the prior 20 weeks (reference period). The result is then displayed for the last 2 weeks (display period) of the chart. The lookback period of the chart should be larger than the sum of reference and display period. With default setting the minimum lookback period would be 22 weeks + 1 day = 155 days.
The indicators can only be used with fixed period charts (for example 30 min or 60 min charts).
Please take into account that NinjaTrader cuts off the bars at the end of a session. Therefore the last bar of each session may show a comparatively low volume. The indicator does not convert this volume into a pro-forma volume by extrapolating the volume to a full bar.
Update September 16, 2014: Holiday calendar added, day of week is displayed below the histogram.
Detailed explanations how to use the indicator can be found here:
This is a generalized version of the Keltner Channels with a few options added:
- The midband can be selected from a moving median, a moving mode or 27 different moving averages, all of which are calculated from the typical price.
- Midband and channels can be smoothed.
- The smoothing period for the range or the true range can be different from the period for the moving average.
- The indicator has an option to display the channels or the midband individually.
- All plots can be colored according to their slope, or alternatively all plots can be colored according to the slope of the midband.
- The slope color includes a neutral slope, which can be adjusted via a threshold.
- The area between the Keltner Channels can be shaded according to the slope of the midband.
- The trend derived from the midband slope can be displayed via paint bars.
Update July 3 2012: Midband can now be selected from a moving median, a moving mode or 27 different moving averages. Adjustable neutral zone added. Bands can be colored according to their own slope or slope of midband, midband and channels can be displayed individually.
Update July 5, 2012: Bug removed - Butterworth, Gauss and Supersmoother Fillter did not use the specified period.
Update August 20, 2012: Old version pf ADXVMA replaced with new version.
Update August 25, 2012: Paint bars added.
Update August 31, 2012: Ehlers Filter updated.
Update October 4, 2012: Ehlers and Gauss filters updated, moving mode removed. Channel and paintbar colors will now align, when indicator is displaced.
Update January 14, 2012: Second indicator added, which calculates upper band from high average and lower band from low average. Bug removed, which caused erroneous results when Butterworth, Gauss or Supersmoother options were used for calculating the average range or true range.
Update August 7, 2013: Tillson T3 added.
Update October 10, 2014: When paintbars were selected without showing the midband, occasionally some bars were set to transparent. Bug removed.
Update March 19, 2015: Slope trend exposed via public IntSeries.
This is a fast version of the MACD BB Lines indicator. The MACD settings and the band period, the multiplier for the standard deviation, the dotsize and all colors can be selected.
Different colors can be selected for a rising and falling MACD and for dots outside and inside the Bollinger Bands. The zeroline crosses are indicated by large dots. The zeroline itself can be used as a trend filter.
Paint Bars: The price bars can be painted in the same color as the dots. To allow for differentiating downcloses from upcloses, downcloses are filled while upcloses are hollow bars. The opacity for the upcloses can be selected.
Alerts: Breakouts from the Bollinger Band (violation dots) can be indicated with arrows or sound alerts. A sound alert for zeroline crosses has also been added.
This indicator can also be used on multiseries charts or charts with equidistant bar spacing set to "false".
The default colours are adapted to dark backgrounds. Please change them, if you use the MACDBBLines on a lighter background.
The sound files are included with the zip file. You have to unzip them manually and copy them to the NinjaTrader sounds directory.
Update April 5, 2011: You can now select different colors for
- rising MACD below upper Bollinger Band
- rising MACD above upper Bollinger Band (trending)
- falling MACD above lower Bollinger Band
- falling MACD below lower Bollinger Band (trending)
Update July 17, 2011: Indicator simplified.
Update September 6, 2011: Options for customizing plots added.
Update February 8, 2011: Paintbars added.
Update May 17, 2012: Arrows and sound alerts added. Opacity for upclose paint bars is selectable.
The MACDBBLines indicator is built from a standard MACD indicator with Bollinger Bands added to the signal line. The MACD values are shown as dots. This indicator is typically used to generate with-trend entries when the upper or lower Bollinger Band is violated.
Minor trend: The minorlower timeframe trend is up when the MACD is rising. It is down when the MACD is falling.
Major trend: The higher timeframe trend may be taken from the MACD itself. An major uptrend is signaled when MACD > 0, while MACD < 0 stands for a major downtrend.
Public Properties: The indicator comes with a few public Series<double> that can be accessed via other indicators or automated strategies. These will also be shown in the strategy builder. The series "Trend" may be used to detect the minor trend. "Trend" will show the value +2 when the MACD is rising and above the upper Bollinger Band, +1 when it is rising and below the upper Bollinger Band, -1 when it is falling and above the lower Bollinger Band, -2 when it is falling and below the lower Bollinger Band. You will further find two Series<double> "LongSignal" and "ShortSignal". "LongSignal" will return +2 for an upper band violation in a major uptrend (strong signal), +1 for an upper band violation in a major downtrend (weak signal) and 0 for no signal. Accordingly, "ShortSignal" will return +2 for a lower band violation in a major downtrend (strong signal), +1 for an lower band violation in a major uptrend (weak signal) and 0 for no signal.
Market Analyzer Column: The indicator comes with two separate market analyzer columns. The first column will simply indicate the trend and return values based on rising and falling MACD above or below the Bollinger Bands as described above. The second column will return entry signals, where +2 stand for a strong long signal, + 1 for a weak long signal, 0, for no signal, -1 for a weak short signal and - 2 for a strong short signal. For the market analyzer I have squeezed long and short signals into a single column, as there is little space on a market analyzer. For the Series<double> objects, I have separated the LongSignal and ShortSignal series, as they are designed to return positive values or 0 for no signal only. Please pay attention to the difference.
Paint Bars: The indicator comes with paint bars that reflect the minor trend. The colors are similar to the colors for the MACDBB dots, but you may differentiate between upcloses and downcloses.
Sound Alerts: The indicator comes with sound alerts that will be triggered when the upper or lower band is violated, or when the major trend changes.
May 15th, 2020 11:44 AM tracer888 Is there an NT8 version of this por favor?
July 16th, 2017 11:46 AM delta9100 great job
July 17th, 2015 06:38 PM ShaunG Thanks FT. I was looking for a "Keltner Channel indicator where I can set a EMA midband. The std NinjaTrader7 Keltner Ch
annel seems to use only a SMA for the midband! Thanks again much appreciated.
July 17th, 2015 12:31 AM Portland
April 2nd, 2015 05:54 AM zungybungy Great indi. Many thx
September 23rd, 2016 07:30 PM BoltTrader I love this indicator so much that I downloaded it again to my new trading laptop! Thank you again!!!
June 27th, 2016 10:17 AM BoltTrader Super helpful! Thank you!!
August 19th, 2014 07:51 AM landau Great Idea! I'm still in the learning phase with support and resistance areas, and it looks like an excellent refining t
August 10th, 2015 04:17 PM skibbatechno Awesome work - thank you!
August 10th, 2015 04:14 PM skibbatechno Awesome work - thank you!
March 30th, 2014 11:37 AM jmont1 Fat Tails, help me understand. Most of the year Europe closes at 11:30 NY time. Moving to March it seems to close at 1
2:00 pm. I see NY went to DST and UK uses BST. But why is it now closing on the hour (12) instead of 1/2 hour? Tried
researching but cannot resolve. THANKS for this to help me out.
September 15th, 2013 10:36 PM Jarmat Thank you great job.
July 15th, 2022 08:17 AM daviddube How do I get the Sound Alerts to work? I have placed .WAV files in the NT8 Sound Folder but they do not sound-off Love
the indie...Thanks
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April 29th, 2020 04:38 PM 4X77 thanks, I am grateful for your efforts and for sharing.
January 23rd, 2020 06:27 PM hobbys11 very nice, thank you Fat Tails