NinjaTrader Custom Communication Indicator
Budget: $30 – $250 USD
I need a skilled NinjaTrader programmer to develop a custom indicator. The specific indicator required is a mirroring communication tool.
Trying to accomplish something I've been told can't be done.
I'm looking to garner your expertise on how to build a program (let's call it VISUAL), a likely combined NinjaTrader script/outside program that together will interface with NinjaTrader. You will NOT be tasked with having to write this program/script. Instead, you will simply be a sort of consultant and thereby provide a description of how to create the needed communication and interoperability between NinjaTrader and this program/script. In other words, you will explain not through coding but through a descriptive flow chart or step-by-step process how to make these programs work as described below. My developer will handle the coding.
VISUAL would monitor/ piggyback/ react off of a NinjaTrader signal indicator (up-down triangle) from which there is no code, drawing object, or API access available. This program, VISUAL will monitor the chart for its signal alerts (triangles up or down) and notify/alert me by simultaneously printing replicating signals/ drawing objects (triangles) on the chart. It's these new triangles (drawing objects) created through what I would call "mirroring" that WILL be made so that the NEW drawing objects can be read or would provide open API access. The access to these new chart triangles would ultimately allow my developer to create a separate semi-automatic order entry panel that would harness the power of the signals.
If you can come up with a viable method or idea for this tool, I will run it by my developer and if he deems the idea as something he or someone else can create, you will be awarded the project and paid $75.
Listed below are three ideas that I supplied to my developer that were shot down as not feasible. They are provided just to give you an idea of the kind of brainstorming I'm looking for.
Idea1: With this indicator, I understand it is not recognized as a "chart object" in NinjaTrader. Can we read the chart pixel count and pixel colors? In other words, we get a signal, and we're looking for a surge of pixels (arrow and label—however many that is) and using the color of said pixels for direction.
Idea 2: If option 1 is not feasible, is it possible to build some sort of overlay for the chart that could recognize changes in visual cues (arrows or pixels)? See the video attached where I created something like this in the past for use on TweetDeck to alert me to when a new headline would appear in each news wire. Though the video doesn't show all of this in action, the overlay alerts to the motion of the new headline coming in beneath it. It flashes the color of choice, the number of flashes, as well as an audio alert. I can create a video to show it in action if I'm not clear.
Idea 3: In NinjaTraader, I understand you can't write a script for audio alerts. However, I'm sure it's possible to build some sort of outside program to recognize the computer's audio and then relay this data back into NinjaTrader chart as a signal/chart drawing object (triangle). For instance, create a Windows program that recognizes certain Win audio files (the ones in use for my signal in Ninja and then sends that signal back to the NinjaTrader.
Trying to accomplish something I've been told can't be done.
I'm looking to garner your expertise on how to build a program (let's call it VISUAL), a likely combined NinjaTrader script/outside program that together will interface with NinjaTrader. You will NOT be tasked with having to write this program/script. Instead, you will simply be a sort of consultant and thereby provide a description of how to create the needed communication and interoperability between NinjaTrader and this program/script. In other words, you will explain not through coding but through a descriptive flow chart or step-by-step process how to make these programs work as described below. My developer will handle the coding.
VISUAL would monitor/ piggyback/ react off of a NinjaTrader signal indicator (up-down triangle) from which there is no code, drawing object, or API access available. This program, VISUAL will monitor the chart for its signal alerts (triangles up or down) and notify/alert me by simultaneously printing replicating signals/ drawing objects (triangles) on the chart. It's these new triangles (drawing objects) created through what I would call "mirroring" that WILL be made so that the NEW drawing objects can be read or would provide open API access. The access to these new chart triangles would ultimately allow my developer to create a separate semi-automatic order entry panel that would harness the power of the signals.
If you can come up with a viable method or idea for this tool, I will run it by my developer and if he deems the idea as something he or someone else can create, you will be awarded the project and paid $75.
Listed below are three ideas that I supplied to my developer that were shot down as not feasible. They are provided just to give you an idea of the kind of brainstorming I'm looking for.
Idea1: With this indicator, I understand it is not recognized as a "chart object" in NinjaTrader. Can we read the chart pixel count and pixel colors? In other words, we get a signal, and we're looking for a surge of pixels (arrow and label—however many that is) and using the color of said pixels for direction.
Idea 2: If option 1 is not feasible, is it possible to build some sort of overlay for the chart that could recognize changes in visual cues (arrows or pixels)? See the video attached where I created something like this in the past for use on TweetDeck to alert me to when a new headline would appear in each news wire. Though the video doesn't show all of this in action, the overlay alerts to the motion of the new headline coming in beneath it. It flashes the color of choice, the number of flashes, as well as an audio alert. I can create a video to show it in action if I'm not clear.
Idea 3: In NinjaTraader, I understand you can't write a script for audio alerts. However, I'm sure it's possible to build some sort of outside program to recognize the computer's audio and then relay this data back into NinjaTrader chart as a signal/chart drawing object (triangle). For instance, create a Windows program that recognizes certain Win audio files (the ones in use for my signal in Ninja and then sends that signal back to the NinjaTrader.