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  • #81
  • Jun 12, 2011 11:14pm Jun 12, 2011 11:14pm
Hanover, I'm working on a system that would use overlapping boxes. If it's not too much trouble, could you make it so that multiple copies could be on the same charts?

Many Thanks!
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  • #82
  • Jun 12, 2011 11:51pm Jun 12, 2011 11:51pm
Quoting forexhard
Hanover, I'm working on a system that would use overlapping boxes. If it's not too much trouble, could you make it so that multiple copies could be on the same charts?

Many Thanks!
That's already possible, simply give each occurrence a different UniqueID value; this will ensure that each object plotted has a unique name. Post #64 gives an example of 3 separate occurrences boxing the Tokyo, London and New York sessions. Use of UniqueID is further explained in post #1.
  • #83
  • Jun 13, 2011 12:12am Jun 13, 2011 12:12am
That was too easy. Works great. I figured it was already in there. I even went looking for it and glanced right past it. Sorry to waste your time like that.
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  • #84
  • Jun 14, 2011 1:34am Jun 14, 2011 1:34am
Hanover, I've been refining my breakout strategy when I discovered that your indi won't attach to an M3 offline chart. Not even after altering the TF inputs as shown in the attached pic. Any advice would be welcomed.
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  • #85
  • Jun 14, 2011 2:02am Jun 14, 2011 2:02am
Quoting forexhard
Hanover, I've been refining my breakout strategy when I discovered that your indi won't attach to an M3 offline chart. Not even after altering the TF inputs as shown in the attached pic. Any advice would be welcomed.
FH,

Must admit I haven't done a lot of work with offline charts, and I never envisaged using the indy in this way. I think the non-standard period is confusing the indy, although I'm not sure why. It's possibly due to MQL4's Period() function not being able to understand non-standard periods, but I'm only guessing.

I've created a EURJPY,M3 chart using pips4life's 'P4L PeriodCon' indy, attached 'Daily Lines/Boxes' to the resulting chart, and tried a few different options (like changing TimeFrame to M3), but - just like you say - all to no avail.

Maybe somebody else can help. The source code is attached to post #1, if anybody wants to attempt a fix.

David
  • #86
  • Jun 14, 2011 4:58pm Jun 14, 2011 4:58pm
Hi,

How to enable debugging? & getting the indicator dump the csv file. Want more to use it for validating on excel.

I saw in source code you had many function there but didn't find the trigger.

Thanks
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  • #87
  • Edited 6:24pm Jun 14, 2011 6:13pm | Edited 6:24pm
Quoting fx13
Hi,

How to enable debugging? & getting the indicator dump the csv file. Want more to use it for validating on excel.

I saw in source code you had many function there but didn't find the trigger.

Thanks
13
Hi,

Not sure what or why you want to debug - what is the error that you're trying to fix?

The functions library includes two functions d() and dd() which dump data to a file named DEBUG.TXT in the folder ..../(MT4)/experts/files

dd() erases the file and starts afresh
d() appends data to the end of the file

You dump the content of a variable like this: d(StartHours)
That will dump the value of StartHours to the file

Then load the file into Notepad for viewing.

David
  • #88
  • Jun 15, 2011 2:01am Jun 15, 2011 2:01am
Quoting hanover
Hi,

Not sure what or why you want to debug - what is the error that you're trying to fix?

The functions library includes two functions d() and dd() which dump data to a file named DEBUG.TXT in the folder ..../(MT4)/experts/files

dd() erases the file and starts afresh
d() appends data to the end of the file

You dump the content of a variable like this: d(StartHours)
That will dump the value of StartHours to the file

Then load the file into Notepad for viewing.

David
Thanks
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  • #89
  • Edited 10:28am Jun 16, 2011 10:02am | Edited 10:28am
David, here's something I'm sure you'd like to hear about. The indi doesn't count up to 15 like I do. Is this a Kiwi thing? Maybe like a USD/NZD exchange rate issue?
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  • #90
  • Edited 5:34pm Jun 16, 2011 5:11pm | Edited 5:34pm
Quoting forexhard
David, here's something I'm sure you'd like to hear about. The indi doesn't count up to 15 like I do. Is this a Kiwi thing? Maybe like a USD/NZD exchange rate issue?
FH,

In your screenshot, your last set of boxes is plotted on June 16. Your first set is on June 1. In NZ that is a lookback period of 15 days.

If the market was open continuously across 7 days, and you set DaysOfWeek to include Sat and Sun, then you would have 15 sets of boxes plotted.

I could have based LookbackDays on calendar days or market days. I chose calendar days because it IMO it makes it easier to calculate. You want to see the last 4 weeks' worth of boxes, you type in 28 (=4x7). If we did it the other way around, you'd need to calculate the number of days the market was open (not so easy if the period included public holidays like Easter, when the market may be open for part days, possibly making some boxes narrower than others). Or I could have simply used something like StartDate rather than LookbackDays, where you type in a date. That would be less ambiguous, but then you'd need to type a new date each day, if you wanted a to maintain a 'rolling window'.

Alternatively, I could have simply gone back to the beginning of the chart, but I included LookbackDays to allow folk to have some control over CPU usage. Unless you want to visually backtest a lengthy historical period, keeping the LookbackDays value small will potentially reduce CPU overhead and performance degradation.

BTW, you document your case very comprehensively. I wish other folk would go to similar time and trouble, posting lucid explanations and screenshots. It would make troubleshooting a whole lot easier.

David
  • #91
  • Jun 16, 2011 11:41pm Jun 16, 2011 11:41pm
Thank you. Your explanation of 4 X 7 = 28 made the most sense, and I understand why you designed it this way. Thanks for coming back and making it so much clearer.

But be honest. Everyone else codes their indis the other way. You just wanted to be different, right?
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  • #92
  • Jun 22, 2011 3:38pm Jun 22, 2011 3:38pm
Hanover, would it be possible to add what you see in the attached pic? It's a buffer zone that lies outside of the current formation. It only forms after the main box is completed, and extends to the cut-off time limit. Exactly as shown here. The height is determined by pips; it can be made any color.

Many Thanks in advance!
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  • #93
  • Jul 5, 2011 2:22am Jul 5, 2011 2:22am
David, I may be missing something, but can you plot vertical lines far into the future? Say I want a line at a set time for several days ahead, is this possible? I can only get one line ahead of current price.

Thanks for all the hard work
  • #94
  • Jul 5, 2011 3:14am Jul 5, 2011 3:14am
Quoting triphop
David, I may be missing something, but can you plot vertical lines far into the future? Say I want a line at a set time for several days ahead, is this possible? I can only get one line ahead of current price.

Thanks for all the hard work
Triphop,

The indy was not designed to display lines out into the future. However, the parameter settings shown give the plot in the attached screenshot: setting StartHours = 480 projects the display of each line to midnight 20 days hence (480 = 20 days x 24 hours). More info on how the settings work in post #1.

David
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  • #95
  • Jul 5, 2011 3:18am Jul 5, 2011 3:18am
Quoting forexhard
Hanover, would it be possible to add what you see in the attached pic? It's a buffer zone that lies outside of the current formation. It only forms after the main box is completed, and extends to the cut-off time limit. Exactly as shown here. The height is determined by pips; it can be made any color.

Many Thanks in advance!
Sorry, only just saw your post now. Really pushed for time at the moment, and am reluctant to make a very complicated indy even more so (it's gotten to the point where I have to refer to post #1 just to remind myself what the settings do).

Anyway, the source code is attached to post #1 for anybody who'd like to tackle your request.

David
  • #96
  • Jul 5, 2011 4:31am Jul 5, 2011 4:31am
Ah, works like a dream. It gets mixed up with saturday and sundays in the future, but no biggy once you put those in.

Sweet, thanks again
  • #97
  • Jan 28, 2012 6:19am Jan 28, 2012 6:19am
Mr Hanover, great effort for sure, works miracles on currencies. One thing though, I trade stocks mostly, is it possible to add support for major indeces and stocks in near future? Currently I can't get the indicator to work with stocks - it won't display the box at all.

Only one more side question. Is it possible to convert this to eSignal EFS format. Of course I'm willing to cover any expenses.

thank you in advance!
  • #98
  • Jan 28, 2012 1:44pm Jan 28, 2012 1:44pm
Quoting ruffryders
Mr Hanover, great effort for sure, works miracles on currencies. One thing though, I trade stocks mostly, is it possible to add support for major indeces and stocks in near future? Currently I can't get the indicator to work with stocks - it won't display the box at all.

Only one more side question. Is it possible to convert this to eSignal EFS format. Of course I'm willing to cover any expenses.

thank you in advance!
Hi,

I am sorry, I can not help you, without the following information:

1. Which MT4 br0ker you are using, and what MT4 build (menu option Help....About.... will tell you the build).

2. Which version of Windows you're running (XP, Vista, or Win7) --- as noted in post #1, the indy may not work correctly on Vista or Win7.

3. What parameter settings you are using (a screenshot would be helpful).

If you provide this info, and your MT4 br0ker allows me to easily create a demo account (unlike Oanda!!!), and you're also running Win XP, then I'll download your br0ker's MT4 and attempt to troubleshoot further for you, using the same parameter settings that you specify.

Re eSignal: I'm sorry, I have no experience with either their product, or their programming language. The MQL4 source code is available in post #1 if another programmer wishes to undertake this project.

David
  • #99
  • Jan 28, 2012 8:37pm Jan 28, 2012 8:37pm
Hanover,

I notice this anomaly for sometime now but did not mention until now; when I apply indicator and only want it to show on 1 time frame, still the daily range numbers display on other time frames.

The pictures can show better than my explain, I only want it on 1 H but the other numbers show on 15 M ??? Also, the MT4 Visualization setting is ticked 1 H only.

Is there a setting I am missing or any way around this?

Thanks for excellent indicator, much appreciated

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  • #100
  • Jan 28, 2012 9:38pm Jan 28, 2012 9:38pm
Quoting Erebus
Hanover,

I notice this anomaly for sometime now but did not mention until now; when I apply indicator and only want it to show on 1 time frame, still the daily range numbers display on other time frames.

The pictures can show better than my explain, I only want it on 1 H but the other numbers show on 15 M ??? Also, the MT4 Visualization setting is ticked 1 H only.

Is there a setting I am missing or any way around this?

Thanks for excellent indicator, much appreciated

Erebus,

Thanks for pointing this out. It's always helpful when somebody posts screenshots.

The Visibility parameter previously applied to the boxes only. I have modified the indy so that it now applies to the text also. You can download the modified version from post #1.

David
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