Dynamically track, overlay, and display multiple data series on the same chart.
Multi Bars Plus is a NinjaTrader 8 chart overlay for traders who want higher-timeframe candles or grouped-bar context without constantly looking back and forth between several charts. Instead of keeping a separate 30-minute chart beside your entry chart, Multi Bars Plus can draw that larger structure directly over the chart in front of you.
That matters most when the chart you trade is not the chart you use for context. A 5-minute chart, volume chart, range chart, Renko-style chart, or other supported chart can stay front and center while Multi Bars Plus shows the broader bar structure that helps you read the larger move.
Real product screenshot: 30-minute MultiBars over a 5-minute NinjaTrader chart.
The larger bars build the way they actually built
This is the part a normal multi-data-series setup gets wrong. Scroll back through your chart with a higher-timeframe series loaded and the finished 30-minute bar can appear the moment you reach the first 5-minute bar inside it. You end up reviewing the past while holding information you never would have had at the time.
Multi Bars Plus rebuilds the larger bar as the smaller bars unfold beneath it. Scroll back to 10:05 and the 30-minute bar in progress looks the way it looked at 10:05: still forming, its high and low reaching only as far as price had actually gone. That is the only kind of historical review worth doing.
Two ways to build the overlay
Minute Mode
Choose the minute interval the overlay bars represent. Put 30-minute bars over a 5-minute chart, or pick any whole minute you like, even or odd. If 13-minute bars are what your market respects, ask for 13.
Best for true time-based context.
Works across supported chart types.
Requires intraday primary chart data.
Bar Mode
Choose how many consecutive primary bars get grouped into each MultiBar. Six bars on a 5-minute chart gives you something close to a 30-minute bar. Useful when the structure you want comes from the bars on the chart in front of you rather than from the clock.
Groups the chart you are already viewing.
Useful for visual structure and testing.
Close to, but not exactly, a true minute bar.
Why Bar Mode is close but not exact
NinjaTrader only draws a minute bar when a tick actually arrives inside that minute. A quiet stretch leaves a gap, so six bars on a 5-minute chart stop being exactly thirty minutes. When you want true 30-minute bars, use Minute Mode and ask for 30.
Same context across different chart types
A normal multi-data-series setup gets hard to align and hard to read on anything that is not a plain time chart. Multi Bars Plus is built for exactly those charts. Tested chart types include Minute, Tick, Volume, Range, Renko, UniRenko, and LineOnClose, and the overlay has been run successfully on custom bar types too.
UniRenko chart
30-minute MultiBars over a UniRenko-style chart.
200 Delta custom bar type
30-minute MultiBars over a third-party custom bar type.
2000 volume chart
30-minute MultiBars over a volume-based chart.
Tested chart types
A practical guide rather than a promise for every bar type ever written.
Minute
Tick
Volume
Range
Renko
UniRenko
LineOnClose
Known limits
Kagi is not supported. LineBreak and PointFigure may show minor issues. Custom bar types are worth testing on your own chart first, though the 200 Delta example above shows how well they can work.
Toolbar control without rebuilding the chart
Everything you change from one chart to the next lives on the toolbar icon, not buried in the properties window. Left-click the MultiBars icon to open its menu. Middle-click hides or shows the whole overlay. Right-click hides or shows the primary data series, leaving the larger bars standing on their own whenever you want that view.
The overlay bars can carry high, low, open, and close guide lines as well, each one switched from the same menu with its own color and style, and all of them dropped at once by one master toggle whenever you want the bars clean again.
Color and opacity are yours on every part of it. The overlay candles are drawn with adjustable transparency, which is the whole reason a 30-minute bar can sit on top of your 5-minute bars without burying them. Set the fill, the wick, and the outline, and decide exactly how much of the chart underneath shows through. The same control applies to the right-side candles.
Switch type or period
Move between Minutes and Bars, then set the overlay period.
Hide or show overlays
Turn the whole MultiBars overlay on or off without removing it.
Control chart clutter
Show or hide the primary series, area, outline, and wick separately.
Style the overlay
Configure colors, opacity, wicks, outlines, and the icon color.
Right-side OHLC candles for another minute series
Multi Bars Plus can also show a user-selected minute series as OHLC candles to the right of the primary chart. In the example below, the primary chart uses 5-minute bars while the right side displays 30-minute bars. The minute value is configurable, and the number of right-side candles is configurable too.
Separate context, same chart
Turn the right-side candle display on or off from the menu, then choose how much context you want beside the active primary bars.
User-defined minute value, such as 30 minutes.
User-defined number of candles to display.
Optional dynamic or far-right placement.
Configurable candle width, spacing, and offset.
Two shortcuts make the candles quick to size once they are up. Hold Ctrl+Shift and roll the mouse wheel over them to change their width. Hold Alt+Shift and roll to change the spacing between them. Both only answer while the pointer is actually over the candle area, so they never fight with the chart’s own zoom.
Key features
Overlays larger bar structure on the chart you already trade, in Minute Mode or Bar Mode.
Rebuilds the larger bar historically, exactly as the smaller bars unfolded beneath it.
Toolbar icon changes type, period, and visibility without rebuilding the chart.
Independent show and hide for the overlay, primary bars, area, outline, wick, and guide lines.
Optional right-side OHLC candles for any minute series you choose.
The same overlay can be shown on every chart of the same instrument.
Real product workspace screenshot: multiple chart types using 30-minute MultiBars for shared context.
Why traders use it
Without Multi Bars Plus
Keep a second higher-timeframe chart open, and keep looking away from the one you trade.
Add a data series instead and fight the spacing, where fixing one series bends the other.
Watch the overlaid candles land mid-bar, one drawn straight through another.
With Multi Bars Plus
Draw the larger bar structure directly over the chart you already trade.
Get overlays that line up, because one indicator draws them, not a rival data series.
Change type, period, and visibility from the toolbar without rebuilding the chart.
Common uses
Trading a 5-minute, volume, range, or Renko chart with 30-minute structure still in view.
Reviewing history without the larger bar giving away its final shape too early.
Grouping consecutive primary bars when bar-count structure matters more than clock time.
What problem does Multi Bars Plus solve?
It lets you view larger bar context on the same chart you are already using, instead of relying on a separate chart or a hard-to-maintain multi-data-series setup.
What is Minute Mode?
Minute Mode lets you choose the minute interval for the overlay bars, such as 15-minute or 30-minute bars, and display that context on a supported intraday chart.
What is Bar Mode?
Bar Mode groups a selected number of consecutive primary bars into each overlay bar. It is useful when the structure you want is based on the chart’s own bars.
Does it work with every chart type?
No. The current page lists several tested chart types, but Kagi is not supported, LineBreak and PointFigure may have minor issues, and custom bar types should be tested first.
Can I hide parts of the overlay?
Yes. The toolbar can hide or show MultiBars, primary bars, the overlay area, outlines, and wicks so the chart can stay readable.
Can it show candles to the right of the chart?
Yes. Multi Bars Plus can display a user-selected minute series as OHLC candles to the right of the primary chart, with configurable candle count, width, spacing, and placement.
Requirements: Windows and NinjaTrader 8.1.2.1 or later.
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4 reviews for Multi Bars Plus | NT8
Rated 5 out of 5
jbmiguel (verified owner)–
Excellent way to keep track of the Bigger Picture Time Frames in 1 chart, this is a smart, functional and elegant way of displaying the Candles with extreme customizing and ease of use, highly recommended if you’re a Multi-Time Frame Trader. AAA+++
Rated 5 out of 5
Ziad Akhras (verified owner)–
Multibar is a very clever solution as I try to look into different timeframe and chart types and whenever you put for example a 15 min chart with 8 range (2 data series) it doesn’t reflect what you want to see. Meaning I would like to see INSDIE the 15 min candle, what the 8 range candles are doing, and previous there was no elegant way to view it until edge solved this problem.
when I saw it, I was very grateful that someone has taken the time to solve this issue. it works perfectly well and I am very happy to finally have it! Great product where you can see as Xray inside the candles. Highly recommended.
Rated 5 out of 5
Mailman (verified owner)–
This is an outstanding product which I have found beats every competitor. For example, others will require you to configure the number of minor bars within the major (overlay) bar. For example, if I have a 3 minute chart and want to see an overlay of the 15 minute bars, I must configure them to “group” 5 bars (3×5=15). Consistent with all of HTT’s products, Steve only requires that you enter the bar’s time period (15), and not approximate a value (such as trying to display a 30 minute bar overlaying an 8 minute chart… good luck). It’s simply another high quality product built by a trader for traders. I wish I found HTT much sooner!
Rated 5 out of 5
roger (verified owner)–
Htech always puts out some of the best utilities in the industry… practical and useful and well done. This is no exception… there are always hidden gems with his stuff, TPO is one of those things in this version that takes it over the top.
thank you
UniRenko chart
200 Delta custom bar type
2000 volume chart
jbmiguel (verified owner) –
Excellent way to keep track of the Bigger Picture Time Frames in 1 chart, this is a smart, functional and elegant way of displaying the Candles with extreme customizing and ease of use, highly recommended if you’re a Multi-Time Frame Trader. AAA+++
Ziad Akhras (verified owner) –
Multibar is a very clever solution as I try to look into different timeframe and chart types and whenever you put for example a 15 min chart with 8 range (2 data series) it doesn’t reflect what you want to see. Meaning I would like to see INSDIE the 15 min candle, what the 8 range candles are doing, and previous there was no elegant way to view it until edge solved this problem.
when I saw it, I was very grateful that someone has taken the time to solve this issue. it works perfectly well and I am very happy to finally have it! Great product where you can see as Xray inside the candles. Highly recommended.
Mailman (verified owner) –
This is an outstanding product which I have found beats every competitor. For example, others will require you to configure the number of minor bars within the major (overlay) bar. For example, if I have a 3 minute chart and want to see an overlay of the 15 minute bars, I must configure them to “group” 5 bars (3×5=15). Consistent with all of HTT’s products, Steve only requires that you enter the bar’s time period (15), and not approximate a value (such as trying to display a 30 minute bar overlaying an 8 minute chart… good luck). It’s simply another high quality product built by a trader for traders. I wish I found HTT much sooner!
roger (verified owner) –
Htech always puts out some of the best utilities in the industry… practical and useful and well done. This is no exception… there are always hidden gems with his stuff, TPO is one of those things in this version that takes it over the top.
thank you