another day another challenge. indicatorCounted()

i figured out at last, that indicatorCounted() will not work in an EA.

however if the indicatorcount() stays in the orginal indicator and i use icustom()
in my Ea to get the result from the indicator which has indicatorcounted() in it. would it still work or would i have to write the whole indicator over with ArraySetAsSeries etc.

so before i will start to dig in that adventure. i first like to know if EA can import indicator results from icustom when it has an indicatorcount in it.

thanks in advance.

the ea will run the custom indicator every tick, wrather its on the chart or not

which makes the indy count all the bars, its the same thing as placing the indy on the chart, then removing it, every tick

now, you can code a indy into a ea, youl need make ur own bar counting instead of using indicator counting

il make a example, ofcourse untested, but give u the ideah

at the top
int counted_bars=0;


in that example, the first run will calculate every bar, each tick after that
it will only use the current bar

IndicatorCounted and computing every tick makes the indicator repaint - not good for an EA. Why waste CPU cycles when what you really want is a compute on close? Do the indi counted routine on first load of the indi to back fill the chart (for seeing on the chart, not for the EA), then after that for live ticks just do the compute on the finished bar when you get the first tick of a new bar.
ps: Perhaps that is what Tom is saying, Didn't read his post thoroughly.

thanks for the answers.

this is what i wrote in my indicator.

int start()
{
int i,counted_bars=IndicatorCounted();

//---- check for possible errors

if(counted_bars<0) return(-1);

//---- last counted bar will be recounted

if(counted_bars>0) counted_bars--;
int limit=Bars-counted_bars;

so to have it work in the EA

int init()
counted_bars=Bars;

int start()
{
for(int i=counted_bars;i>=0;i--) this is the same as if(counted_bars<0) return(-1); ???
{
doing something - ? what needs to be done here? i normally use this only after if statements to activate something.
}
counted_bars=0;
return(0);
}

thanks for the help so far, please help me further when you got the time.

thanks

http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...28#post2538528 see post #4

I wrote a Compute On Close wrapper for a HP indicator. It's a hack, not great clean code, but you can see what it takes to get the job done.

Yes, it should work with iCustom.