Hands-on NinjaScript work — indicators, strategies, and add-ons I’ve built or torn apart.
A polished indicator hides settings that don’t apply to the current state. When a ShowLabels bool is off, the LabelColor, LabelSize, and LabelFont properties should disappear from the grid — they’re irrelevant unless labels are enabled. Standard NinjaScript attributes don’t give you that directly. There’s no [Display(EnabledWhen = “ShowLabels”)]. Three workarounds do it. Each has…
A three-property indicator fits fine in NinjaTrader’s default “Parameters” bucket. A fifteen-property indicator doesn’t. Once an indicator has ATR inputs, confirmation thresholds, display toggles, color choices, and alert settings, the property grid needs real structure — otherwise users scroll past the setting they actually wanted to change. Last week’s post introduced [Display(GroupName, Order)] and [Gui.CategoryOrder]….
A property’s C# identifier isn’t always what you want users to see in the indicator settings dialog. Period reads fine; atrPeriodLookback looks like a raw variable name. The [Display] attribute lets you set a friendlier label, add a tooltip, group related properties together, and control the order they appear. Four parameters cover almost all of…
You wrote an indicator. It works great on a chart. Now you want to use it from a strategy — you write var sma = MySma(20); in State.DataLoaded and expect the cross-script reference to just work. Or you want to optimize Period in Strategy Analyzer and see which value produces the best backtest. How does…
At the end of Calculate Modes, we looked at an arrow-on-condition indicator that behaved differently depending on whether it was running on historical bars or live ticks. The fix in that post was a draw-cleanup pattern — remove the arrow before each OnBarUpdate pass and let the live condition repaint it. Good enough if you…
You wrote your first custom indicator. It plots cleanly, the math is right, you’re happy. Then you want to see it update live instead of only at bar close, so you flip Calculate from OnBarClose to OnPriceChange — a one-line change — and suddenly what shows up on the chart isn’t quite what it was…
You’ve read enough of the foundational posts in this series to know what OnBarUpdate, OnStateChange, and Plots do in isolation. This post puts them together. By the end of this walkthrough you’ll have a working NinjaScript indicator on your chart that plots a moving average and recolors itself based on slope — green when it’s…
I’m not “back to posting.” I’m not starting a schedule. I’m not making promises. I’m not doing the whole “consistent content” thing again just to disappear in a week. If anything, this post is the opposite. This might be my last post. I’m undecided. I’m writing this more for me than for anyone else. I’ve…
In Part 3, we laid the groundwork for our Better Moving Average (BMA) indicator — setting up the file structure, building inputs for multiple moving average types, and wiring up the core logic. But identifying the average is only half the story. In this post, we’re diving into trend detection. 📉📈 You’ll learn how to:…
In the last post, we walked through our plan for the Better Moving Average (BMA) — an indicator that lets you switch between multiple moving average types using a single dropdown. Now it’s time to start building. This post focuses on laying the foundation — getting our files created, our workspace organized, and the core…
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