100 ticks

I am trying to figure out how long it has taken ( in time ) for the price to change 100 times (ticks)

volume[] will give me tick volume

what I need is to set ibarshift = " the bar 100 ticks ago"

anyone know how to do this... I was thinking about a counter that adds the ivolume() values and spits out when the value is > 100. but i cannot seem to get it to return the right value.... any suggestions ?

figured it out....


This will give you how many bars it took to get the last 100 ticks.. or however many ticks you set TickVar to.... you can then use Vbars as the "period" in your indicator calculations and it will calculate the indicator based on ticks not time..... the result is when times are really volitle your indicators will become more reactive. and during slow periods your indicators will adjust accordingally...

I don't think Volume has to do with tick value, but rather the value of intensity of the market. Volume is the value of Volume indicator.

I think the only way to get a tick chart is to capture them live because previous values of ticks are not stored anywhere.

thats what I thought too... but its wrong. volume in MT4 is simply the number of ticks per candle

double Volume[]
Series array that contains tick volumes of each bar of the current chart.

Series array elements are indexed in the reverse order, i.e., from the last one to the first one. The current bar which is the last in the array is indexed as 0. The oldest bar, the first in the chart, is indexed as Bars-1.

See also iVolume().
double iVolume( string symbol, int timeframe, int shift)Returns Tick Volume value for the bar of indicated symbol with timeframe and shift. If local history is empty (not loaded), function returns 0.
For the current chart, the information about bars tick volumes is in the predefined array named Volume[].


it would be very usefull if MT4 had data on $ volume but it would be impossible since most MT4 brokers only have a handfull of credit lines. the only real data the a MT4 broker could return is the volum ethat they do...

Also if you notice tick volume varies from broker to broker

this is due to the way they round the Price and the amount of credit lines they have.... this is where they could get really shady if they wanted to.

intersting...

that would be a handy tool.

as for your code, it should work on smaller time frames(best on 1M). The volume on 1H on GBPJPY is like 300+/bar.

mt4 only saves ticks that happened while you are logged in, hence the reason mt4 interbar trades are close to -5000% accurate.

you could try reading the .fxt files in the /tester folder, that is where the ticks are stored.

mt4 was never made for ticks, so you are walking a rough path.