How to keep arrows on chart-please help!

Hello , I have a indi that I downloaded a while a go that when a signals is generated it puts an arrow on the chart. If the signal changes it takes the arrow off the chart and does not put on a new one until new signal is generated.

My question is how can I keep the arrow from disappearing off the chart?? I would like it to stay on there so I can see what happened when I was not in front of the computer. I am not code savy and have no idea. Probably something pretty basic but I have no clue.

Any help appreciated I can send you indi if you want.

Thanks

Sounds as though it may be a 'repainting' indi in which case there is not much you can do without a complete recode.

Post the mq4 and someone may be able to explain.

M.

Here is the file. I just want the arrows to remain after they first appear.

that's not the file he asked for, and so you probably don't have access to the original code.

this would mean that instead you want to slap together an indicator of your own that just loops through all objects on the chart, gets the name of each object, checks that the name doesn't have something like "clone_" in it's name, if it does then you ignore this object and move on, else it looks for another object with the same name as itself but with something like "clone_" at the start of the object name, if the clone exists do nothing, if it does not then create the object and set it up with the exact same properties as the original object you are currently at in the main object search loop. once the other indicator repaints you'll be left with a copy of the arrow where it used to be.

you can refine that if there is some defining factor about the arrow objects, such as a particular naming scheme being used and / or their wingdings code, and so you only end-up making copies of the objects you are actually interested in instead of every object on the chart.

that is, if by 'code savvy' you mean you can code at least a little bit.