I recently created a chart with several tabs.
ES/NQ/YM.
When I select the account in chart trader, ALL of the tabs use that chart trader account. OMG what a mess.
ALL of the advantages of using Tabs is LOST with this missing feature.
I saw a secondary indicator for $$ that solves this issue.
WTH. why isn’t this in NT 8.
Does the same behavior occur in NT 8.0?
If not, I will revert to that version.
Unfortunately, what you have discovered is standard and expected behavior since the beginning of NT8.
That is, Chart Trader settings belong to the chart window, not to any one chart tab in that window.
Yeah, I don’t like either.
My charts are all the same for ES/NQ.
If there was a way to change the settings on ONE indicator without reloading the chart that would be nice. I have the indicator setup with a template for each instrument and it saves the stop/target settings but to change the template I must open the indicator window and select the template for that indicator.
That means the chart must refresh instead of just change the one indicator template
There is not.
I’ve designed a couple of my indicators to read some of their values from an external INI file, just to avoid this dilemma.
Yes, the entire chart will refresh, redrawing all historical bars, and recalculating all necessary values for all indicators.
That is the expected behavior.
Did you post those indicators that use the External INI file. That may be a solution for me also.
You can write an indicator that uses the Tab Switch Handler that automatically switches the account selected in ChartTrder based on the Instrument, tab number etc…
For me it’s a bit annoying sharing ChartTrader among tabs with the ATM selector because different instruments require vastly different ATM. I’m not sure you can write to the ATM selector in the same way from my previous tests.
Sorry, no.
Those indicators are private.
However, send me a DM if you want more information about how to read an INI file from your NinjaScript. I can help get you started.