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I have a day chart which I frequently look at. Is there an indicator or plugin or something that will enable me to have a predefined list of instruments listed at the top of the chart, so that I can quickly scan through instead of using the drop down list. I dont like having multiple tabbed charts open and this way maintains a single window which consumes less resources than maintaining multiple tabbed windows that hardly get looked at . much quicker than the drop down list as well.

Thanks.


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I have a day chart which I frequently look at. Is there an indicator or plugin or something that will enable me to have a predefined list of instruments listed at the top of the chart, so that I can quickly scan through instead of using the drop down list. I dont like having multiple tabbed charts open and this way maintains a single window which consumes less resources than maintaining multiple tabbed windows that hardly get looked at . much quicker than the drop down list as well.

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I don't know if it's possible in the way you describe it - to me it looks very similar to the tabs view.

Why not have multiple charts - it's even quicker to glance at, no?


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I don't know if it's possible in the way you describe it - to me it looks very similar to the tabs view.

Why not have multiple charts - it's even quicker to glance at, no?

Quicker yes, but information overload becomes a problem for me. I need to process things sequentially. Tabbed is an option but this would be a 'nice to have' feature.


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I have a day chart which I frequently look at. Is there an indicator or plugin or something that will enable me to have a predefined list of instruments listed at the top of the chart, so that I can quickly scan through instead of using the drop down list. I dont like having multiple tabbed charts open and this way maintains a single window which consumes less resources than maintaining multiple tabbed windows that hardly get looked at . much quicker than the drop down list as well.

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not sure if this will do what you are asking for?:
https://nexusfi.com/download/ninjatrader-7/indicators/1208-download.html?view


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Yeah something like that. Thanks.
Ill take a look at the code and see if customisation to take on instruments instead of drawing tools.


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I have a day chart which I frequently look at. Is there an indicator or plugin or something that will enable me to have a predefined list of instruments listed at the top of the chart, so that I can quickly scan through instead of using the drop down list. I dont like having multiple tabbed charts open and this way maintains a single window which consumes less resources than maintaining multiple tabbed windows that hardly get looked at . much quicker than the drop down list as well.

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I am using the workspace indicator, it allows to switch with a click of the mouse from one workspace to
another. I hardcoded my instruments in the indicator and there are as many buttons on each chart as
workspaces, from any workspace i can jump to any workspace. If you don't find the indicator or need a
screen shot let me know..


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I am using the workspace indicator, it allows to switch with a click of the mouse from one workspace to
another. I hardcoded my instruments in the indicator and there are as many buttons on each chart as
workspaces, from any workspace i can jump to any workspace. If you don't find the indicator or need a
screen shot let me know..

Sounds interesting, yes please share your screenshot.


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Quicker yes, but information overload becomes a problem for me. I need to process things sequentially. Tabbed is an option but this would be a 'nice to have' feature.

That's where brain plasticity comes in. Sometimes information overload can be an issue for me too, but I reckon the brain learns on its own to discriminate between important info and noise.

Of course it's all part of the learning curve


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Sounds interesting, yes please share your screenshot.

Please find the screenshot and the indicator
You need to customise it to your work-spaces...


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That's where brain plasticity comes in. Sometimes information overload can be an issue for me too, but I reckon the brain learns on its own to discriminate between important info and noise.

Of course it's all part of the learning curve

I took your advice. I've loaded pre market analysis up in individual windows to see if it compliments well. They are all higher timeframes so I dont notice every little twitch of the market. I think this might assist with perspective which I tend to lose when watching the hypnotic pull of bleeding edge timeframes like a 500 volume or whatever.
So yeah thanks. Im working on breaking this tendency of jumping to conclusions without first having xplored (see what I did there?) what has been suggested.
Cheers bud.


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