Audio tick indi, with changing spread

Can anyone change this audio price ticking indi so that we can identify the changing spread as well (ie. append "Igel spread" to "BigPriceMultiTicks")?

The aim is to add a textline to show the changing current spread (from a 6 digit broker, or ECN feed) AND a line chart indi below the price to display the recent spread through time (a very noisy line, but potentially useful to identify areas where liquidity, bigger players, entered the market).

So we'd have a proxy for where liquidity/bigger players are entering, and have entered, at certain price levels while audio tick tracks the current sequence of ticks up/down (1,2,3 up, 1,2,3,4, down, etc.) at that price.

The sound files for BigPriceMultiTicks should be saved to MT4's sound subdir, and the indi itself of course go in indi subdir. That's about it for my "programming" skills. LOL

This material comes from here: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...152202&page=34

the spread will change during a candle. how would that be handled? mix/max ? you'd need 2 lines on the graph. so it would probably end up looking like a bollinger with squeezes.



you can easily see this by the
huge red candles stretching down your screen...

Its very hard to get the ticks to play properly during volatile times. Its much too easy for the EA to fall behind.

Can anyone give it a go to see if this is the case anyway ?

Although I am sure you are right about volatile times maybe a bit too hectic for this. The audio tick indicator does seem to cope ok though

It would have to be saved on the fly as there is no Bid[] Ask[] afaik. And there may be some sort of self fulfilling aspect to it too, if its based on technicals.
Indicators tracking indicators Then you need to look at your code execution something is eating all your cycles up. most likely unecessary huge loops. use breakpoints.

This article helps to understand the timing and ticks (threads) in code. http://book.mql4.com/variables/globals