New very cool CandleTime and session time Clock indicators

Kent (pips4life)

Love your clock Kent.

Just one thing missing, I would love to have the brokers spread on the top of the clock and also allow the colour to be changed so the spread is the same as the clock.

The reason for this is that my broker has a variable live feed spread and it’s handy to know if the spread is up or down.

Thanks if you can help
Peter-FX

Hi Peter-FX,

Displaying the spread is a good idea. I put that in, plus I auto convert extra-digit-broker pips by a factor of 1/10th if that applies. You can specify a highlight threshold if the spread drops below some value.

I also added display of (Bid) Price & Volume. I'm almost done. Each are displayed independently.

Aesthetically, I put them on the bottom (although the entire list can be reversed if desired). After all, it's a "Clock" right? Would seem strange to have non-time stuff on top. However, it's not cast in stone... what do you think?

The price and volume values use "HigherPriceVolumeColor" and "LowerPriceVolumeColor". Price is vs. lastprice. Volume is vs. the last bar's volume.

Not sure what you meant about wanting the spread color to be the same as the clock. Do you mean all clock values to be the label color? (You have a color variable for each you can customize). Or something else? Things like colors are not hard for a user to customize in the code.

Kent (pips4life)

Thanks Kent (pips4life),

Yes my brokers spread is a decimal spread ie. 2.5 etc.
Bid & Volume excellent.

Yes it is a clock, I’m so glad to have it in, I’ll take it anyway.

I just wanted the colours to match the rest of the clock.

Thanks again Kent, I presume the new clock is on page 1.

Cheers.
Peter-FX

ps You can go to this site and checkout forex time zones. I think Sydney is from 8am to 4pm. The reason some people will give different times is because their broker opens and closes at different times.
http://forex.timezoneconverter.com/

Hi all, esp. Peter-FX,

A new version of "P4L Clock.mq4" v2_6 was just uploaded to Post #1.

Changes:

* New "ShowPipSpread" (Ask-Bid) in pips (including automatic 1/10th pips for extra-digit-brokers).
* New "ShowBidPrice" where color indicates last tick was higher/lower.
* New "ShowVolume". Color indicates higher/lower vs. the last bar. Also, the label changes to "*HiVol*" if the volume is >= the-12th-highest-of-last-120-bars.
* Flag LowSpread by setting "LowSpreadHighlightThreshold" to >0
* New popup Alerts (once-per-bar): DoHighVolumeAlerts & DoLowSpreadAlerts
* New arrows using DoLowSpreadArrows to mark LowSpread events on the chart. (Because they can't be recreated, these arrows persist unless you remove them by changing "Delete_Old_SpreadArrows" to true).
* An Alert ERROR now occurs if the user forgets to enable DLLs.
* Regular MarketOpenHours (8A-5P) (and those for Sydney, 7A-4P) can now be customized with external variables if desired.

These are some pretty nice new features, especially the Alerts. (One idea led to another... which led to another...).

Thanks to Peter-FX for suggesting pip spreads.

Kent (pips4life)

P.S. The screenshot shows mainly the new v2_6 features and the current display defaults (which the user may of course customize as desired)

Kent (pips4life),

I really appreciate all the work and effort you have put into the clock.

I have attached a pic of my clock.

Many pips to you.

Thanks
Peter-FX

Thank you, exactly what I was looking for.

Very-very nice and useful... thanks a lot! btw.. how do I add Dubai time?

Hey Kent,


Your Clock is great, i think it will be one of my standart indicators for long time


I have a Idea for your clock.


Could you add a feature, to show when the specific market opens and closes ?

The actual open market, that is marked with a * should show when it closes in () and/or after the clocktime.

For Example:

*Berlin 13:40[3:20]

and the not open markets should show

China 0:40 (7:20)

() = Open in
[] = Close in


Could you add a feature like that with the option to turn on/off?


thanks alot anyway for your nice indicator!

I wish you all the best!

Hi Kent,

Very cool indicator, I love it! I hope you can add and change a couple of things.

1). When I set the clock to the BL or TL, the time and words are back to front from when they are set on the TR or TL. Can you change it so it would say say Broker time rather than time then broker?

2). Can you add the following - pips to open, Hi to Low and ADR

Thanks

-S

You're very welcome.

Because I already will soon post an update, I'll include Dubai as well. There are written instructions inside the program describing how to add a new timezone. It wouldn't be hard for any programmer to do but I got you covered for this one.

Hi Psychonyze... glad you like it. The feature you describe is not something I am motivated to add. I see the market-open color or not, and I pretty much can do a quick mental calculation between the current time and either the market open (8:00) or market close (17:00). Perhaps you or someone else might like to make the modifications if it's important enough.

With respect to #1, while I've thought about it, it's just not a big enough deal to me to put in the changes. Swapping the label order can be a bit complicated but even if not, the order is just cosmetic and is something I don't even notice now. You or anyone else are welcome to make this change if desired.

For #2, fortunately I already implemented these new features and will release a new "P4L Clock.mq4" v2_7 shortly.

See post #1 for the latest update:

2010-02-23: New "P4L Clock.mq4" v2_7
Changes:
* Added option for Dubai timezone
* New "ShowRange" to show current bar High-Low (in pips)
* New "ShowPips2open" to display current currentBarPrice-Open in +/- pips
* New "ShowAvgPeriodRange" to display APR (or A#R). The period, lookback and display are controled with APR_Period, APR_Bars and APR_LabelShowMinutes
* New "ShowAvgDailyRange". Lookback controlled with ADR_Bars
* Renamed old "Background_Name_Pixels" to "Background_AddWidth_Pixels"
* Fixed a few bugs with v2_6
* KNOWN issue with ADR/APR: When calculations are based on a different chart timeframe, the calculations are only correct if your history data is current for the other timeframe (i.e. ADR will be accurate if your Daily history data is current). Best way to be sure is to have a Daily chart open in addition to the chart you attach this indicator to.


Additional details:
The "Range" value is red if the current bar range is less than the previous bar range (where range is High-Low, so the value is always positive).

The "Pips2open" value is green if positive, red if negative. It is the currentBarPrice - open.

The display shows "AHR(5)". "(5)" is the APR_Bars. The "H" is the timeframe (H1 in this case, but controllable with APR_Period). The variable APR_LabelShowsMinutes was true here (else it would have said "APR(5)" but because the period was H1, an "H" was used. Had it been an M15 chart, the label would say "A15R(5)". (Tricky to describe, not so tricky to understand in practice).

The display also shows "ADR(5)" where ADR_Bars is "5".

When the current chart is a daily chart, ADR is only displayed once, not twice on two identical lines. (The duplicate is suppressed).

Both APR and ADR are blue if the current bar calculation is larger than the previous bar calculation, otherwise red.


Please note, the display as shown here is the "default". If all you want is the original clock information, or, anything different than shown, please feel free to use MetaEditor to change the external variable defaults to your preferences, the save-and-compile for your use.

(Personally, I might also suggest using LabelCorner=2 (bottom-left) but I left the default alone as "1" (top-right) ).


Enjoy,
Kent (pips4life)

P.S. I made almost all these changes a few weeks ago. My time to make custom changes or enhancements such as these is now more limited. Feel free to report bugs or suggest enhancements but please understand I may have to decline or put off the changes for awhile. (Bugs have a better chance of getting fixed sooner...)

Wow!.. I was not really expecting you to entertain my request.. I thought it was a long shot!..

Thanks man!.. you are da man!.. Honestly.. your clock is very accurate it is almost like magic.. it is my favorite indicator!

That's high praise, thanks.

Thats perfect!! Thankyou very much.

Kent,

I sent two PMs to you regarding _v2.7, and have posted this chart as a visual. I don't know if you can tell from the chart pic, but there is still not complete closure with upper chart boder as with the indy just to the left of the clock.

Edit: Well, with some more butchering of your splendid code, I got closure with upper chart border. But everytime I change font size, or add/delete items, I have to go into compile and peck around for things to recode to get it all to reappear correctly. Anyway, second chart is to show what I meant by the asterisk.

Thank you so much for posting this excellent indicator Kent. Much appreciated.


I have however noticed that on my version the times for Tokyo, Sydney etc is 10 minutes too fast. My local time is South Africa (Johannesburg). Any ideas what I must do to correct this?

It sounds like your Broker's CPU time is off by 10 minutes (which if true, is not a good sign about the professionalism of your broker).

By default, "P4L Clock" has variable "Broker_MMSS_Is_Gold_Standard" = true. This means that it interprets the minutes and seconds of your broker as if they are accurate, and then calculates all the other world timezones by the number of hours different from your broker's time.

If instead you want to treat your own local CPU clock as "Gold Standard" accurate, then change that variable to "false". All the world clock times will then be synchronized with your local CPU clock.

If this doesn't explain what you are seeing, then please upload a picture with details, and mention what broker you are using.

Hi, well done.

I think there's a little bug on the pal candle time indictor. In the inputs tab, when you select "false" for the APR option and click okay, it takes off the APR along with the ADR.

It will also be nice if you can add some audio sounds (.wav - I can give you one) rather than pop ups.

Keep up the good work.

Many thanks "pipsforlife"!!!

Finally I have a clock that works

And what a clock that is!!! Great!

Hello pips4life can you add ex:GMT+1 for the broker i use? Because i want to know about my broker GMT. Thanks...