Coloring bars

Does any one have a indicator or EA that colors bars.

I would like to be bale to color bars between certian hours different colors.

So form 12 am to 6 am one color from 6 am to 9am a different color.

Can any one help?

Doc

Hi Doc,

I liked your idea so I've made this little indicator based on it.
Couple of things about it:

1. It doesn't actually color entire bars, it just draws a colored-line through the body of the candle. This way, you can still see if the bar is a bullish bar or a bearish bar. Also, it's easier to code the script this way LOL.

2. If the candle is a doji (open is the same as close), it will draw a colored vertical line from the high to the low of the candle. Depending on what zoom you use, it should look pretty clear.

3. Color 0 and Color 1 must be the same. These are the colors of your Color1Time (12 am to 5 am in your case).

4. Color 2 and Color 3 must be the same. These are the colors of your Color2Time (6am to 9am in your case) --- wasn't sure of the exact times you wanted because you mentioned 6am twice. Not sure if it was inclusive of exclusive.....

5. This indicator strikes an MT4 bug that you probably have seen before. If you use the indicator and try to scroll back in time to the point where MT4 has to obtain fresh data (early data), it will not delete colored-lines and will clutter your screen. To erase them, just click on a different time frame button and then return to the time frame you want. I've contacted the makers of MT4 about this issue and I'm waiting for a response.

6. Times, Colors and Thickness are customizable.

7. I also included time-bar function which tells you how much time is left to the end of the bar

8. Because it's the weekend and the markets are closed, I haven't tested it in real-time. So I hope it'll work.


Hope it's useful

Lighty

WOW thanks lightkeeper

I will let you know how it works.

Thanks
Doc

LightKeeper this is great I do not tend to use candle but it colors the bars just great so I can see ar eduring the specific time range.

ONly one probelm I want to color bars from 22 to 2, which is 4 hours , th esame color.

I can do 22 to 24 and it works bit if I go from 22 to 2 then it does nto color any thing during that time frame.

I did not have problme with redrawing

Thanks again this is great.

Doc

Yeah, that's cos 2 a smaller number than 22. the script simply takes numbers between lower and higher.

If you want to color bars from 22 to 2 one color, you can do this:

1. Set color1timestart at 22, color1timeend at 23. set color2timestart at 0. set color2timeend at 2. in the colors tab, make all colors the same color. This will use up all of your colors (you'll only be able to have colored candles between 22 and 2, and can't have a second colored time bracket).

2. If you need a second time bracket, just drop a second instance of the same indicator with your second time bracket on it. you can drop this inidicator on the chart many times with different settings

Or you can color all the candles between 3 and 21, and that way the uncolored candles will be your candles from 22 to 2

Many ways to skin a cat

..... i mean bars, not candles...

ok, enough of this monologue LOL

LightKeeper, I did not think of plotting the indicator again, that will work Great.

Thanks
Doc

... yep you could do that .. or fix the indicator so it works both ways ... see attached ...

Akuma99,

That's very good. But it colors the wrong candles. If we're gonna fix it, let's fix it properly. We want an input of "22" to "3" (10pm to 3am) to color the bars between 10pm and 3am and not the bars between 4am and 9pm

And that takes a little bit more than a MathMin function. Now, let's see. How do we make it recognise that it's talking about 3 am THE FOLLOWING DAY? A loop through the candles will do it



Lighty

Like this one final version here (this one actually works as it should without having to muck around).....To only have one color-time, set Color2 times to -1 as per default.

(using switches of course)

This is Great now I can see the time frames the banks are opening and closing.

Thanks
Doc

Change the following lines

haHigh=Open[pos];
haLow=Close[pos];

to

haHigh=High[pos];
haLow=Low[pos];

and it will color the entire bar from High to Low. Nice work LightKeeper!!

anyone tried coding this to LocalTime instead of Servertime....this way if you use multiple providers you don't need to keep changing the times...?

Hehehe
But there's a reason I didn't want it to change the entire line....If you use candles and you color the entire line, when you zoom out you can't distinguish between the body and the shadow

not exactly what you were asking for, but this indicator highlights different times... e.g. you can highlight 2 zones... e.g. europe and ny (of course these hours are all adjustable)

Good point. If you use the candlesticks, the wicks will turn different colors...I remember seeing code for coloring candlesticks...I will have to try and dig that one up. FYI thanks for helping me on my first Alert last week, I now am comfortable playing in code.