{"id":2528,"date":"2023-01-27T17:42:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T17:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2023-03-15T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T16:14:10","slug":"nullstyle-chart-type-for-ninjatrader-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/index.php\/2023\/01\/nullstyle-chart-type-for-ninjatrader-8\/","title":{"rendered":"NullStyle bar type for NinjaTrader 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NullStyle, eh? <br \/><\/strong>What&#8217;s that all about!? Well &#8211; sometimes, you just do not want bars on a Ninjatrader chart. Maybe you have an indicator that plots bars, like a UniRenko, or maybe you use a volume-type display, like <a href=\"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/index.php\/2021\/02\/pjsprofilebars-indicator-for-ninjatrader-8\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1666\">pjsProfileBars<\/a>. Either way, the Ninjatrader solution is not very convenient. It entails going into your Data Series settings, and setting the candle colours and bar outlines to transparent. There&#8217;s another disadvantage to this method. Even though you set them to invisible, and don&#8217;t care about them, NT8 still does all the calculations to create them in the background. How wasteful! So, a better solution, which I bundle with some of my bar type replacements, like the ProfileBars, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/index.php\/2019\/10\/heiken-ashi-indicator-for-ninjatrader-8\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1314\">pjsHiekenAshi<\/a>, is the &#8216;NullStyle&#8217; chart style I created. This means, you can very easily just select &#8216;NullStyle&#8217; from the drop-down list of bar types along the top of the chart, and, bam! Your bars are invisible. Not only that, all the bar processing code is removed, so, no wasted CPU cycles on stuff you cannot see, anyway. Smart, eh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I chose to share this here, because, 1, I seem to keep forgetting to bundle it with releases, and 2, I figure a bunch of people can use it anyway, even if they do not use my indies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1-1.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"463\" data-attachment-id=\"2649\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/index.php\/2023\/01\/nullstyle-chart-type-for-ninjatrader-8\/image-1-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1-1.webp\" data-orig-size=\"512,463\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-1-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1-1-300x271.webp\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1-1.webp\" src=\"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1-1.webp 512w, https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1-1-300x271.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The &#8216;NullStyle&#8217; chart option, after the indie installation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not a lot else to show, because, err, it makes the bars invisible!<\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Download<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"sdm_download_button_box_default\"><div class=\"sdm_download_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/?sdm_process_download=1&download_id=2531\" class=\"sdm_download green\" title=\"NullStyle bar type &#038; chart style for Ninjatrader 8\" >Download Now!<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph -->Ninjatrader 8<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><strong>Licensing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>This software is coffee ware. It is free to download and use, but, if you find it useful, please consider using the link in the app or the link on the right of this page to show the author you care and <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/pjsmith\">buy him a coffee<\/a>. Just 1 coffee ( you can buy more if you want! ) &#8211; Or, consider it a beer! That&#8217;s not a lot for the time it saved you, is it? Without support, the author will neither maintain this product nor make new ones available publicly. Please be sure to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/index.php\/tag\/NinjaTrader\/\">some of my other Ninjatrader bits and pieces<\/a>.&nbsp; Remember, I&#8217;ve got to eat and keep the lights on too! Thanks for your support!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NullStyle, eh? What&#8217;s that all about!? Well &#8211; sometimes, you just do not want bars on a Ninjatrader chart. Maybe you have an indicator that plots bars, like a UniRenko,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,57],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ninjatrader","8":"category-trading"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NinjaTrader_4QmLjVMtpI.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjsmith.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}