thanks cory will have a look later -- wanted this as a working skeleton so i can build other things into it on my own

thanks zondor for yr help

Zondor 

... Let me know if you would like a voice that speaks the range of each bar after that bar closes. It's really pretty easy to code indicators that "talk". I just added a thread on that subject... "Let's teach Ninjatrader how to talk".

sounds good, i like to see that.

Or
Just use the ATR indicator set the period to 1 and the plot style to bar and you can see the range for each bar plotted in a panel.

Draw a few horizontal lines at 1, 2, 3 and you can see with a glance what the range of the bar is.