| The levels | Basic H/L | Live Range Levels |
|---|---|---|
| Today’s high and low, live the lines move the moment a new extreme prints | ✓ | ✓ |
| The midpoint, live the 50% of the day, moving with every new high or low | ✓ | |
| Any % level you type 61.8, 73.2, +50, -25: ten boxes, decimals allowed | ✓ | |
| Level sets in one setting quarters, thirds, eighths or Fibonacci | ✓ | |
| Any session | ||
| The chart’s own trading day the full session on a futures chart | ✓ | ✓ |
| True RTH levels on an overnight chart from NinjaTrader’s own RTH template, where the instrument has one | ✓ | |
| Overnight, Asia and London the index futures premarket, on New York time | ✓ | |
| Your own start and end time any window, across midnight too | ✓ | |
| More than today | ||
| Yesterday’s range across today fixed levels, labeled PD or Prev | ✓ | |
| Up to ten days of ranges each on its own session, or run on to the right | ✓ | |
| Extensions beyond the range, mirrored +50% above the high also draws -50% below the low | ✓ | |
| Yours to set | ||
| Every preset line and custom level styled on its own color, dash and width | ✓ | ✓ |
| Text labels on every line and an info box name, price, day; distance to every level in points, ticks or % | ✓ | |
| Free, with free updates no trial, no locked settings, no upsell | ✓ | ✓ |
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Intraday charts only: nothing is drawn on Daily or larger bars, or on Heikin-Ashi, Renko, Kagi, Line Break and Point-and-Figure bars, whose prices are calculated. Load one day more than you want to see.
Five preset lines for the day, each in its own color.
Type +28 and the same distance is drawn below the low, as -28.
Each day’s high, low, 50% and extensions, inside its own session.
In points, ticks or percent, in the corner, font and color you choose.
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Four ways to trade around today’s range. None of them is a signal; the entries, the stops and the discipline are still yours.
The midpoint of the day is where a trending day pulls back to and where a rotating day keeps returning. With it drawn live, you always know which half of the range price is trading in.
Above the midpoint the day’s buyers are ahead, below it the sellers. The quarters split it further: holding above 75% is strength, sitting under 25% is weakness, the middle is where days go quiet.
When price leaves the range, the range itself is the ruler. Half a range and a full range beyond the high or low are places many traders take profit, and with Mirror on both sides are drawn at once.
Draw the overnight high and low, or the Asia or London range, with its midpoint, then watch what the regular session does with it: a break, a move back inside, or a test of the 50%.
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Download the zip, then in NinjaTrader 8 go to Tools → Import → NinjaScript Add-On and pick the file. Add LiveRangeLevels (that is how it is spelled in NinjaTrader’s list) to any intraday chart from the Indicators list and today’s levels are drawn — most traders are done in under a minute. The step-by-step guide covers every message NinjaTrader can show and the update rule.
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Today’s high and low, the midpoint of the range (the 50%), and one extension on each side: +50%, half a range above the high, and -50%, half a range below the low. On a full-session futures chart the day starts the evening before; set Session to RTH for the regular session’s high of the day and low of the day. Today’s lines carry a label with name and price at the price scale. Previous days to show is 1, so yesterday’s session shows the same lines for yesterday’s range, labeled PD where that session ends. Everything else — the open, the close, quarters, Fibonacci levels, your own levels, the info box — is one setting away.
As a percent of the range, where 0 is the low and 100 is the high: 50 is the midpoint, 61.8 or 73.2 sit inside the range. Beyond the range, type +50 (or 150) for half a range above the high and -50 for half a range below the low, up to 1000% either way. There are ten boxes, Custom level 1 (%) to Custom level 10 (%), decimals allowed, each with its own line style. The chart labels read the same way, so you can always type what a label shows.
Yes, by default, and it moves live: every time the day makes a new high or low the 50% line is redrawn at the new midpoint. Traders also call it the halfback or the midline. Out of the box the midpoint comes from Custom level 1 (%), which ships as 50; Day mid (50%) in the preset levels draws the same line if you would rather free that box for another level.
It draws the line between them. Traders who follow ICT call the 50% of a range equilibrium, with premium above it and discount below. Live Range Levels draws that 50% for today’s range or a session’s, live, or for yesterday’s finished range, and the quarters or any % level you type on either side of it. It does not shade the zones, and it does not pick a swing high and low for you: the range is always a day or a session.
Today’s levels do, and that is the point: they are measured from today’s range, so when price makes a new high or low the high or low line follows it and every % level between and beyond them moves with it. Finished days do not change. With Previous day’s levels (PD) on, the lines come from yesterday’s finished range and stay fixed all day.
Your choice, under Session. Full_Day, the default, uses the chart’s own trading hours — on a standard CME futures chart the full session from 18:00 New York. RTH uses NinjaTrader’s own regular-hours template for the instrument, so a full-session chart gets true RTH levels with nothing to set up; where NinjaTrader has no such template for an instrument, RTH gives the chart’s own hours and the labels do not say RTH. Overnight (18:00 to 09:30 New York), Asia (18:00 to 03:00) and London (03:00 to 09:30) follow New York time on any chart clock, through every clock change.
Yes. Set Session to Overnight and it draws the overnight high and low, with the midpoint and any % level you type, for 18:00 to 09:30 New York — on ES and NQ the Globex hours before the cash open — through every clock change. The lines move live while the overnight session runs, labeled ON High and ON Low. When the session ends they stop moving and, with Extend today’s lines to the right on and Previous days to show at 1 or more, as it ships, run on across the regular session to the price scale, labeled ON Prev High and ON Prev Low. The chart must load the overnight hours (a regular-hours chart has none) and, on tick, volume and range bars, at least two days: a session whose start is not on the chart is dropped when it ends.
Yes. On index futures such as ES and NQ the premarket is the overnight session: Session set to Overnight gives the high and low made before the 09:30 New York open, live, then carried across the regular session. For stocks, ETFs and markets that open at another time, check Use custom session and type the pre-market hours as Start time and End time, as your chart’s time axis shows them, on a chart whose trading hours include them: NinjaTrader’s own US Equities ETH template starts at 08:00 New York, so earlier hours need a trading hours template of your own. Check Extend today’s lines to the right again to carry the levels into the regular session. Either way the premarket midpoint and your % levels come with it.
Yes. Check Use custom session and type a Start time and an End time as your chart’s time axis shows them: 08:00 and 18:00, or 8:00 AM and 6:00 PM. An end earlier than the start runs past midnight. The lines then stay between those two times; check Extend today’s lines to the right again to carry them on to the price scale. A time that cannot be read leaves the Session setting in use.
Yes, two ways. Previous day’s levels (PD) draws yesterday’s finished range across today’s price, every level labeled PD (Prev for Overnight, Asia and London while Extend today’s lines to the right is on). Once today’s session has ended, with that switch on, today’s own range becomes the new PD, drawn from its last bar on, and the lines across the finished day read 2D (Prev2 for those sessions). Or keep today’s live levels and add yesterday’s: Previous days to show 1 with Extend previous days’ lines to the right runs yesterday’s lines on across today; switch Show current day off to see them there without today’s own. Up to ten days can be shown. For the previous day’s high and low with dates, fading and up to ten days at once, see our free previous day high and low indicator.
Intraday charts: minute, second, tick, volume and range bars, on any instrument and any data provider, with no volume data needed. Nothing is drawn on Daily or larger bars, or on Heikin-Ashi, Renko, Kagi, Line Break and Point-and-Figure bars, whose prices are calculated rather than traded. A session other than the full day is exact on bars that divide evenly into its start and end, such as 1, 5, 15 or 30 minutes for RTH on ES; on larger or non-time bars the bar that crosses the start is counted whole and the bar that crosses the end is left out.
For the day’s open, high and low, yes: NinjaTrader 8’s Current Day OHL plots those three, and Prior Day OHLC plots yesterday’s open, high, low and close. Neither has a midpoint or percentage levels, and both follow the chart’s own trading hours only, so neither keeps an overnight or premarket high and low apart from the day’s on a full-session chart. NinjaTrader’s Fibonacci retracement tool draws percentage levels, but you anchor it by hand and it stays where you put it. Live Range Levels measures the range for you, redraws every level when the range grows, and does it for the session you choose.
No. Live Range Levels draws on the chart only: it has no alerts and offers no values to the Strategy Builder, the Market Analyzer or NinjaTrader’s Alerts window. We left those out on purpose — what it shows, it shows correctly, and we would rather not offer a half-reliable signal.
No. The lines never pull the price scale, so a +100% extension does not compress today’s bars. A level outside the prices on screen shows once you scroll or compress the price scale.
A day whose first bars are not on the chart is drawn only while its session is still trading. Once the session has ended its range could be too small, because part of the day is missing, so it is left out. Load one day more than you want to see: raise Days to load in the chart’s Data Series settings.
Email support, answered by the traders who built it. Bugs get fixed — this tool gets the same updates and support as our paid indicators.
Sixty-two settings in nine groups, and the six things they add up to. The names in bold are the names in the indicator’s settings window.
Day high and Day low draw the high and low of the trading day, live; with Session on RTH they are the regular session’s high of the day and low of the day, the HOD and LOD. Every % level is measured from that range, so all move with each new extreme. The midpoint, the 50% midline, is on out of the box. Day open and Day close add the first price of the day and the last price of a finished one.
Custom level 1 (%) to Custom level 10 (%) take any percent of the range: 0 is the low, 100 the high, 61.8 or 73.2 anywhere between. Type +50 (or 150) for half a range above the high and -50 for half a range below the low, up to 1000% either way. Mirror levels beyond the range, on by default, draws each extension on both sides, and every level has its own line style.
Extra levels adds a whole set in one setting, each spanning the range from low to high: Quarters every 25, Thirds at 33.3 and 66.7, Eighths every 12.5, Fibonacci 23.6, 38.2, 50, 61.8 and 78.6. None is the default. The set shares one style, Extra level lines, dotted silver out of the box, and a custom level typed at the same percent takes over that line with its own style.
Session sets the hours of the range: Full_Day, the default, is the chart’s own hours. Overnight is 18:00 to 09:30 New York, the premarket on index futures, with Asia and London as its halves, through every clock change. RTH uses NinjaTrader’s regular-hours template, where the instrument has one, for RTH levels on a full-session chart. Use custom session with a Start time and an End time measures any window.
Previous day’s levels (PD) draws yesterday’s finished range across today’s price, fixed and labeled PD or Prev. Previous days to show, from 0 to 9 and 1 by default, adds earlier days, each on its own session. Extend today’s lines to the right runs today’s lines on to the price scale, and Extend previous days’ lines to the right does the same for earlier days. Show current day off hides today’s own lines.
Show labels turns the labels on every line on or off in one click. Show session and day (RTH, PD), Show level (High, Open, 50%) and Show price build each label, as in PD High 6482.25. Show info box lists the day’s range, the distance from the open and the distance to every level, in points, ticks or percent, with its own font, Box color and Box opacity (%). Position picks its corner; labels step aside for it.
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Not for you if you want the tool to tell you when to buy and sell. Live Range Levels shows where price sits in the range; the reading, and the trade, are yours.
Pairs well with Free previous day high and low indicator (Daily H/L Lines) · Free initial balance indicator (Live IB Range) · Key levels indicator (Intraday Reference Levels) · Session high low indicator (SessionLevels)
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