Chameleon

Chameleon plots price data, from this chart or another instrument or timeframe, so you can feed those prices into other indicators.

It was first made to give BloodHound solvers price data in NinjaTrader 7. Solvers now read price data directly, so you don’t need it for that. It’s still useful for nesting prices into indicators: for example, set an SMA’s Input Series to Chameleon’s Open to get an SMA of open prices, or use another instrument to get an SMA of the Dow on an S&P 500 chart.

Properties

Modify Value

Setting	What it does
Scale Value	Multiplies all the plots by this value. 1.5 raises prices by 50%; 0.5 lowers them by 50%.
Add / Subtract Value	Adds this value to all the plots. Enter a negative value to subtract.

Parameters

Setting	What it does
Lookback	For plots ending in SMA, the SMA period. For plots ending in Bounds, how many bars to look back for the lowest low (Low Bounds) or highest high (High Bounds). With 3, Low Bounds is the lowest low of the last 3 bars.
Use Alternate Instrument or Timeframe	On: shows the settings below, so Chameleon can use another instrument or timeframe. Off: Chameleon plots this chart’s prices.
Alternate Instrument	The instrument to take prices from, instead of the chart’s.
Price Based On	The type of market data that drives the data series.
Type	The bar type of the data series. See Bar Types in NinjaTrader’s help guide.
Value	The data series value (for example, 5 for 5-minute bars).
Base Period Type	The underlying data series type. Kagi, PointAndFigure and LineBreak only.
Base Period Value	The underlying data series value. Kagi, PointAndFigure and LineBreak only.
Reversal	The reversal value. Kagi and PointAndFigure only.
Reversal Type	How the reversal is calculated. Kagi only.
Brick Size	The brick size. Renko only.
Box Size	The box size. PointAndFigure only.
Price	The price used for the data series calculations. PointAndFigure only.
Line Breaks	How many lines make a line break. LineBreak only.

Plots

These are the values you can pick when you use Chameleon as an input, for example in a solver or as another indicator’s Input Series. All of them come from the alternate instrument or timeframe when Use Alternate Instrument or Timeframe is on, and all are changed by the Modify Value settings.

Plot	Value
High Bounds	The highest high of the last Lookback bars.
Low Bounds	The lowest low of the last Lookback bars.
Mid Bounds	Halfway between High Bounds and Low Bounds.
Open SMA	An SMA of the open, over Lookback bars.
Close SMA	An SMA of the close, over Lookback bars.
Typical SMA	An SMA of the typical price, (high + low + close) / 3.
Weighted SMA	An SMA of the weighted price, (high + low + close + close) / 4.
Median SMA	An SMA of the median price, (high + low) / 2.

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