Looking for Drawing tools for Ninja Trader 8, would like to have a better line drawing tool for drawing trend lines. When I used Ninja Trader 7 when I drew a trend line then copied it would be on the same plain. Now in Ninja 8 I always have to square the lines up after copy. It seems I spend more time correcting lines than I spend studying the market. I have tried search function and scrolled a bit but not finding anything. If anyone ever watches Mack's Trading he has what I would like to have but free if available.

Thanks

JMAL 

Looking for Drawing tools for Ninja Trader 8, would like to have a better line drawing tool for drawing trend lines. When I used Ninja Trader 7 when I drew a trend line then copied it would be on the same plain. Now in Ninja 8 I always have to square the lines up after copy. It seems I spend more time correcting lines than I spend studying the market. I have tried search function and scrolled a bit but not finding anything. If anyone ever watches Mack's Trading he has what I would like to have but free if available. Thanks

Good morning, I can't recommend any in particular, but did you check the download section for NT indicators?
Good trades
Deetee

JMAL 

Looking for Drawing tools for Ninja Trader 8, would like to have a better line drawing tool for drawing trend lines. When I used Ninja Trader 7 when I drew a trend line then copied it would be on the same plain. Now in Ninja 8 I always have to square the lines up after copy. It seems I spend more time correcting lines than I spend studying the market. I have tried search function and scrolled a bit but not finding anything. If anyone ever watches Mack's Trading he has what I would like to have but free if available. Thanks

You may want to look at NinjaTrader's "Trend Channel" tool (not Regression Channel) and see if it does what you want.

Otherwise the attached mod of NinjaTrader's built-in Line tool should paste copies right on top of the original. Is that what you have in mind?

The modified tool will appear in drawing tools menu as "Line JMAL".

 

Code

namespace NinjaTrader.NinjaScript.DrawingTools { public class LineJMAL : DrawingTool { public override void AddPastedOffset(ChartPanel panel, ChartScale chartScale) { foreach (ChartAnchor anchor in Anchors) { //the line's duplicated is pasted right on top of it //If you eventually decide you DO want an offset, look at this example on NinjaTrader's documentation pages // https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/NT%20HelpGuide%20English.html?addpastedoffset.htm } } protected override void OnStateChange() { base.OnStateChange(); if (State == State.SetDefaults) { Name = "Line JMAL"; } } } }

JMAL 

Looking for Drawing tools for Ninja Trader 8, would like to have a better line drawing tool for drawing trend lines. When I used Ninja Trader 7 when I drew a trend line then copied it would be on the same plain. Now in Ninja 8 I always have to square the lines up after copy. It seems I spend more time correcting lines than I spend studying the market. I have tried search function and scrolled a bit but not finding anything. If anyone ever watches Mack's Trading he has what I would like to have but free if available. Thanks

What exactly do you mean by not on the same plain? In NinjaTrader 8, copy and paste creates a duplicate line with the same slope.

Please watch this video we recorded for you demonstrating it: https://www.loom.com/share/59bf453d7979439aaa87a2addd42c00f

NinjaMobileTrader 

What exactly do you mean by not on the same plain? In NinjaTrader 8, copy and paste creates a duplicate line with the same slope. Please watch this video we recorded for you demonstrating it: https://www.loom.com/share/59bf453d7979439aaa87a2addd42c00f

My lines are not square with one another when copied and pasted.

Deetee 

checking the NexusFi download section

@Deetee,

Good call pointing JMAL to the downloads section -- there is some solid community-built NT tools there.

For a bit of background on what is happening: in NinjaTrader 8, drawing tools have a method called AddPastedOffset that controls whether a copied object pastes in the exact same position or with a slight offset. The offset is the default behavior in many built-in tools -- it is designed to make it visually clear you have a new copy rather than accidentally double-stacking on the same price level.

If the goal is a custom drawing tool that pastes in-place (no offset), that method is the lever to adjust. @NinjaTrader has documentation on this in their developer reference under the Drawing Tools section -- the NinjaScript Editor also includes a Drawing Tool Builder that gives you a starter framework to extend existing tools.

For practical options:

• Search the NexusFi downloads section first -- community members have shared custom drawing tool variants and this may already be solved
• If building from scratch, the Drawing Tool Builder in NT8 makes the framework setup fairly straightforward

I am not certain whether a ready-made version exists specifically for this paste behavior, so worth checking downloads before diving into code.

-- Fi

"The best drawing tool is the one that stays exactly where you put it."