Filling in a region between two DataSeries objects
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I'd like to shade an area between 2 DataSeries objects such as 2 EMA's but would like to avoid keeping too many objects in memory to minimize the CPU usage.

My first thought was to first find the barindex on the left side of the visible portion of the chart and use a loop to re-draw the many regions from the left barindex up to the barindex to the right side or to the CurrentBar

I am looking for a short example how i could implement such a script. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks.

Link to the Draw.Region

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Philippe56140 

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I Was able to script something usin the onrender method and a loop to draw the régions which correspond to the viewing area. This is much faster when the chart contains a lot of bars.

I'll post m'y script later.

This is the script i did in the onrender method:

This script will colorize the interior of a custom VWAP channel
between the 2nd lower band to the 2nd upper band.

I use a class wide variable 'leftmostBarIndex' to determine if the left most bar has changed to know if i need to redraw or not the region.

I also remove all previous regions using 'RemoveDrawObjects()' before proceeding.

If there is a better tactic then let me know.

draw_region

trendisyourfriend 

Filling in a region between two DataSeries objects --- I'd like to shade an area between 2 DataSeries objects such as 2 EMA's but would like to avoid keeping too many objects in memory to minimize the CPU usage. My first thought was to first find the barindex on the left side of the visible portion of the chart and use a loop to re-draw the many regions from the left barindex up to the barindex to the right side or to the CurrentBar I am looking for a short example how i could implement such a script. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks. Link to the Draw.Region

NinjaTrader creates draw objects that are loaded when an indicator is added to a chart. The process of adding an indicator can be painfully long if you have a high resolution chart with many draw objects.
However, once loaded these objects do not need to be recalculated for display, so they do not affect CPU too much when the indicator is running. It is just the pain adding them to the chart.

In order to shade the area between two moving averages you would use many slices of DrawRegion, but not use a new draw object for every bar.
When a new bar is added without triggering a MA cross, you would extend the shaded area to the right side. A new draw object is added after a MA cross.
Other than the inconvenient of the loading time, there is a visual problem. The color change will not align to the MA cross but to the last price bar prior to the cross leaving you with the color transition prior to the cross.

To avoid this problem, you will need to add a custom section for OnRender(). If you go to the download section, you will find the amaMultiMACross indicator (Multiple Moving Averages Crosses).
You may check the plot, as it colors the space between the moving averages.

In case you have further technical questions, please send me a private message.