Program to Allow MT4 to show crosshair over different timeframes

Hi there everyone.
This is my first post.

Does anyone know how to achieve the following please.

If i have say, for example, 3 timeframes up on my screens.

I would like to find a way to pull up a crosshair and hover over say a 5minute chart. But i would like to see the crosshair moving on the other timeframe charts too whilst i am moving the crosshair on the 5minute chart.

Is this possible?
Thank you in advance...

This is one of the features I missed the most when I got rid of E-signal and Tradestation. They both had what they called a global crosshair that did exactly what you describe. I used it all the time, and now often wish I could do it in MT4 but have never figured out a way.

Thanks BenQ for your reply.
Do you think that this might be something that can be programmed? or, more to the point, if anyone would be willing to program something which can do this? This would be awesome. I would love to see this feature on MT4. Thanks again for your reply and all the best mate...

hello Slim,
I had similar problem some time ago and so I did this solution, I hope it will help you:

1. open main window and drop "@ sx BT get" script on the chart - magenta vertical line named "BT" apears at the end (this script will read time and write it to global variable)

2. open other window (for ex. other TF of the same pair) and drop "@ sx BT set" script on it - blue vertical line named "BT" apears at the end (this script will read glob. variable with time and move blue line to specific time)

3. repeat step 2 if necessary in more charts

now move magenta in main window and blue lines will move in synco with it.

when you want to stop scripts - just switch TF in the windows

Thank you so much Sorrex - i really appreciate your wonderful and kind help on this. I am going to try this out now and post back if i have any problems. Thanks again

Hi Sorrex - this is a fantastic solution thank you very much
I was wondering - did you create this script?

If so - what would the possibility be of modifying it slight so that we can group a vertical and horizontal line together, thus, creating a crosshair which can be moved around the charts instead?

I have no clues about scripts i am sorry so i would not know where to start.

Please let me know if you could help.

All the best and have a great day....

Hi Slim,
I join a slightly modified version. It does both vertical and horizintal line. Unfortunatelly it is not possible to move both of them simultanously.

I solved exit of scripts also - you can just delete one of magenta lines in main window and it will remove lines and global variables in all windows and removes script from them. Due to this solution "BT get" script must be dropped in main window first, then "BT set" in slaves windows.

Hope it will help you any way. GL

Wow Sorrex - what a fantastic job you have done there

That is amazing...
Thank you thank you thank you thank you )))))

Is there no way at all possible to somehow implement in the script that the vertical line and horizontal line are grouped so that it acts like a proper crosshair?

I was wondering if this was possible since you were able to implement that when the vertical line is deleted - it deletes the horizontal line too...

If this could be achieved - then you have absolutely cracked the global crosshair issue on MT4.

Honestly, i cant thank you enough for this - it really is an amazing piece of work.

THanks once again....

hi slim,

im sorry but i have no idea how to tie both lines like a cross. I do not know function that gives actual position of cursor.

Actual script works simply: "get" reads position=time of vertical line or price at horizontal line and these values writes to global variables, that are accessable from other windows.
"set" scripts reads content of glob. variables and move lines to proper positions (price and time). No less no more. Because you are not able move both lines together you cannot work as regular crossline.

If there is some connection between line (e.g. you horizontal line = close price at the that time of vertical line) it is possible to tie lines. But it is not regular crosshair.

Im not sure if you understood what I mean, so I join another handy script for manual backtesting that works this way:

How to use: drop "manual BT" script to chart. there will be 2 vertical lines (red and blue) and 2 horizontal dashed lines. You can move vert. line to open and close order positions and hor. lines move immediatelly to close price at these times. In left up corner you can see the profit. Nothing clever but sometimes handy for backtesting. Must try and you will see.

I cannot get to work correctly. Is that an updated script for the global crosshairs for the MT4???

Hi there, is this working?? When I drop it onto my MT4 charts, it doesn't attach??

The script is nice in marking the area of interest on chart with vertical line, but it does not move chart view to the marked data. It is still necessary to page through historical chart views to find the corresponding blue vertical line. So instead of searching for date and hours I only have to search for the line now.

Is there some way that chart with blue line automatically scrolls chart to the date and time with new location of blue line? This would make the script really useful.

Are there other solutions or packages besides this script?

the only way I know to auto scroll is to use ninjatrader, but I do not know of any free data providers for forex.

i'm not about to bother actually doing the code in any of the scripts... but a very simple solution is to comment how many bars away the vert line is compared to WindowFirstVisibleBar() and / or work out how many 'pages' back the vert line is via WindowFirstVisibleBar() combined with WindowBarsPerChart(). to be fair, if you get this far then you might as well actually work it out from the middle bar on your screen instead of the leftmost bar... piece of cake.

it's not autoscrolling to the position for you, but at least you aren't taking stabs in the dark as to how far back or forward you need to go to find what you are looking for if it's displayed on the screen for you automatically.

I have it programmed for MetaTrader 5.



look my Blog
http://www.metatraders.de/2011/09/18...-version-1-20/

here CrossHairs OnClick Version (not additional contain calls to DLL.)

Can you convert it into MT4?

MQL4 is not possible. Consumes too much system resources.

THANKS!!!

does anyone know how to contact FinGer or have the cursor file?
thanks, mark