stratman mini chart indicator

If you are like me, you like to view price action in multiple time frames e.g. Daily, 4 hour, 1 hour, 15 min etc. I wanted a way of dragging a currency symbol on to a window and have multiple time frame charts appear simultaneously in that window. This birthed the idea of “Mini Charts”.

I'll keep this post updated with latest version and manual.

## Note: You now need the stratman.fon font (in zip file attached) ##

Edit: 1 Dec 2009: Version 3.0 click here for videos on setup and use

Edit: Added Moving averages to Version 2.0 - 16/10/2009

Version 2.0 - 05/10/2009
1 Modified for the 'Stratman' Font Type
2 Reduced MultiMode to max of 30 charts
3 Autoscaling of bar count
4 Simulator Mode Added - calcs higher time frames from main chart


See the picture below and download the font, indicator and manual from here.

If you want to display the indicator in its own indicator window, attach it to the main window as usual but set the WindowNumber variable to the number of the indicator window.

To simplify things, attach this indicator 'BlankWindow.ex4' to your chart.

Congrats for your thread and many thanks for coding the 4H minichart for me.

It has his fixed place now under the Pair/TF label.

Stratman good work !! Just continue to work on it never give up

Thanks a lot for this excellent indi ... appreciated.

Congrat, keep the thread going, thanks alot for hours put into this reseach and God bless

How to modify candle size?
The width of each subject is the candle

I'm a bit confused as to what you are asking ... maybe it's how to change the candle width?

There is no way at present, you can only change the height.

Hi Stratman,

Can you attach a template of your chart to have a look at your settings?
I have used the multimode and it seems is working. Using the single mode how can I attach different charts to the blankwindow? If I attach one and try to attach another one the previous one becomes not visible. I must be doing something wrong.

Also is possible to have a vertical blankwindow? I saw some on the THV thread.

Thanks

That's pretty cool, will have to try it sometime.

Great work Stratman

I think the vertical blank window is an illusion ie it just the right had side of the chart window?

Here's an update that fixes the following:

Version 1.1 - 28/09/2009
1 Debug statements removed
2 ATRBars default value changed to 20
3 BarsToDisplay default value changed to 20
4 ATRPixelsY default value changed to 30
5 BarSpacingX default value changed to 7
6 WickColor==None makes wicks same color as bar
7 Chart Vertical positioned center of scale
8 Charts are more accurate
9 Determined accurate offset values for LABEL anchor arrays

Thanks Stratman !!

Great work !!!

Great work, thanks!

And question - you may make +1 another kind of candles in indicator - Heiken Ashi candles?

Maybe

First of all, thank you for this great tool.

I think new version has some issues. I see lines on top of the candles


May I ask you to publish a few templates ? I would like to see the template for putting different currencies and different TFs on one screen.

Stratman,

Excellent tool. I just marvel at your programming skills. Yes the minichart tool has rhythm.

Can you help me? I rely on statistics to do trading. One programmer is helping me put together multi-pair movements in real time statistics display.

He is basically using one chart as a blank pad (by making chart elements to nil color and disappear) to produce multi-currency statistics in the main window as well as in a separate window.

Attached is a picture.

On the chart, the time value and value2 are being output in the form of label definition on a multi-currency historical statistics window.

Value2 is ouputting relevent information (as defined) but Time value is displaying the variable time of the chart frame.

Time is showing the information about the main chart. My programmer says Variable time is dependent on chart time frame and he doesn't know how to stop it outputting value on the chart as a label definition.

The Time value gives misleading information because it is not at all relevent to statistics and daily/monthly bars being output on the screen.

So I want Time value to either output relevent information (best option) or if it can't be done that let it stop it outputting in label definition on screen.

1. Is it possible to change the definition of time value to something which is related to the indicator?

If yes, please show the way.

2. If not, can I disable time value not to output on screen so that wrong information is not displayed?

Kindly guide me to get the solution.

Once the indicator is finished I will email it to you.

Thank you in advance.

Hi Stratman

It has been a long time since I have come across such a cool and useful indicator. I was wondering if it's possible to add any of the MT4 indicators to the minicharts. It would be useful to see how the price action in minicharts is reacting say to moving averages. I don't mean complicated indicators just simple ones like moving averages, ichimoku something that does not require a separate indicator box.

I hope this makes sense. Either way, thanks for your fantastic work.

Fatmirm

Any time value can be written to the screen. The label is just a holder of text. So if the time value you want is availiable in the indicator code, you can put it on the screen.

Hope this helps