Lets say I have an indicator, how do I know what the setting are for the icuston call, if it has 3 values in the data window, can I extract the data with the icustom call?
Lets say I have an indicator, how do I know what the setting are for the icuston call, if it has 3 values in the data window, can I extract the data with the icustom call?
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Bwk, yes you can. The second last parameter (highlighted in the text that I pasted in below, from the MetaEditor on-line help) has a value of 0 thru 7, that correspond to the values in buffers 0 thru 7 of the custom indicator, respectively.
The first value (buffer) is 0, the second value is 1, the third value is 2, etc.
Example:
x = iCustom("GBPUSD",PERIOD_M15,"My Indicator",1,2,3,1,0);
assumes that you want to extract the data from the second value (the '1' in the second last parameter) of "My Indicator", on the current bar (the '0' in the last parameter), where "My Indicator" takes three parameters, and their values are set to 1,2, and 3 respectively (the 4th, 5th and 6th parameters in iCustom()).
Hope this makes sense.
David
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double iCustom( string symbol, int timeframe, string name, ..., [b][i]int mode[/i][/b], int shift)
Calculates the specified custom indicator and returns its value. The custom indicator must be compiled (*.EX4 file) and be in the terminal_directory\experts\indicators directory.
Parameters:
symbol - Symbol the data of which should be used to calculate indicator. NULL means current symbol.
timeframe - Timeframe. It can be any of Timeframe enumeration values. 0 means the current chart timeframe.
name - Custom indicator compiled program name.
... - Parameters set (if necessary). The passed parameters and their order must correspond with the desclaration order and the type of extern variables of the custom indicator.
[b][i]mode - Line index. Can be from 0 to 7 and must correspond with the index used by one of SetIndexBuffer functions.
[/i][/b]shift - Index of the value taken from the indicator buffer (shift relative to the current bar the given amount of periods ago).
Sample:
double val=iCustom(NULL, 0, "SampleInd",13,1,0);
