Ahh, cool. For gaussians I set my line drawing tool default to black, width 2 because Pepe's channel tools means I only have to use the line drawing tool for gaussians. I just hit F2 and draw. To change the color to red is really simple because "red" is the first "r" word in the color field (unfortunately this isn't the case for the word "black"). Anyway, you just double click the line, hit the letter "r" and hit enter. It's really fast with a little practice. Ensign's mouse scroll wheel was the best, though, for changing line colors and widths if you had them preset.
Yeah, it's a shame NT has such a clunky interface. I miss Esignal when trying to draw annotations: just right-click, pick a color, click and draw the line. Copy it and the copy starts out attached to your cursor. The channels tool does help though, and it's just something to get used to.
Does anyone know how to speed up the refresh rate for Mak's excel sheet (for the "PRV" page)? Right now the price on the sheet does not move tick for tick with the market. Many thanks for any help you can provide.
From excel you can set the refresh rate using something like this: =myaccount|refreshRate!millisec?100 I don't use Mak's sheet myself. You can find the full documentation for the excel part of the IB API here. Don't set the refresh rate too low or you will have other problems (excel will not keep up). And remember the IB feed is not a tick feed, instead updates are sent with a fixed time interval. Hope this helps.
NT users, Is there a way to get new blank charts for replay without deleting the previously drawn lines (and with it my actual history)? Even when I open a new chart, as they suggest, my lines are still there.... TIA
Try this. In your My Documents\NinjaTrader 6.5\db rename the NinjaTrader.mdb file to something else. NT will create a new one for you and should get rid of all the lines. You can delete the file, however rename it just in case you need something from it.
I finally figured out how to pass a font as an input variable, so I updated VolumeSCT. The message font is now adjustable, as well as location corner and color. The caveat: The Text message background defaults to Color.Empty which allows anything underneath to show through (like volume bars...). It does NOT say Empty when you look at the parameter values but it is until you edit that parameter. Color.Transparent simply paints the chart background color first, then text, blocking anything underneath (like volume bars...). BE CAREFUL if you change from the default -- You can ONLY get Color.Empty back by removing the indicator & re-adding. It cannot be selected from their pull-down menu. BTW, if you turn PRV off then the message compares actual volume to the prior volume bars, instead of comparing current PRV to prior Volume bars. I find that enabling PRV on daily futures charts just doesn't ever look right, probably because volume during off-hours is so low, the pro rata projection is skewed.
So since I put a volume ratio message in the Volume pane, it seemed logical to have the price range info in the Price pane. I updated BarCheck to put a message in the corner. Again font, corner and color are selectable. Also you can turn off this message if you have something else there and don't want it. Same caveat applies.
Interesting stuff... this program looks like a powerhouse. The programming skill required is a bit beyond my capability at the moment, but please keep us posted on your progress. I am always ready to learn.