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  • #1
  • First Post: May 11, 2010 12:57pm May 11, 2010 12:57pm
Guys,

I have a question:

I have a file with date, pricelow, pricehigh values and want an indicator to read from that external file and plot lines on the main window.

Is that possible, does such an indicator exist?

Thanks!
  • #2
  • May 12, 2010 5:25am May 12, 2010 5:25am
yes it is. take a look at this thread http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=230357

it will be better if you can upload the sample file (in CSV format) along with a pic that illustrate how the line should be drawn
  • #3
  • May 12, 2010 9:35am May 12, 2010 9:35am
Sangmane, my friend, thanks for your reply!

The previous project you helped me on is doing great!

This one is a little different. I found on the web an indicator that draws cycle lines of planets in an indicator window.

I want something similar, but on the chart itself, like on the picture, same way moving averages are displayed.

The file would look like this:

date - price low - price high
01012010 - 1.6000 - 1.7000

The file I will extract from an excel file and dump it into .csv

I attached the indicator that I found and it has an option for multiple files, that would actually be perfect.
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File Type: mq4 Astro.mq4   6 KB | 871 downloads
File Type: txt mercure.txt   20 KB | 811 downloads
File Type: txt Venus.txt   22 KB | 745 downloads
  • #4
  • May 12, 2010 11:21am May 12, 2010 11:21am
below are two files, the indicator that will draw two lines based on csv data, and the sample csv file that contain 16 rows of data. save csv file to expert/files folder.

the important thing is the first column of csv data must contain date in the format "yyyy.mm.dd".

if your original data is in excel, you can export it to csv. before export to csv, make sure to change the date format by using format cell- number-custom. the indicator don't make a date conversion.

hope this help
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File Type: mq4 #DataPlotter.mq4   2 KB | 805 downloads
File Type: csv data.csv   < 1 KB | 797 downloads
  • #5
  • May 12, 2010 1:26pm May 12, 2010 1:26pm
Quoting sangmane
below are two files, the indicator that will draw two lines based on csv data, and the sample csv file that contain 16 rows of data. save csv file to expert/files folder.

the important thing is the first column of csv data must contain date in the format "yyyy.mm.dd".

if your original data is in excel, you can export it to csv. before export to csv, make sure to change the date format by using format cell- number-custom. the indicator don't make a date conversion.

hope this help
Thanks for this Sangmane.

However, the line is not showing on the chart.
It will recognize the file but no line is visible.
  • #6
  • May 12, 2010 1:45pm May 12, 2010 1:45pm
check the following:
1. atached on daily chart, because the date on first column is a date without hour/minutes
2. the high/low column (2nd and 3rd column) has a value that visible on the chart. if you fill 2nd/3rd column with value = 97.89 and attached the indicator on EU chart, you'll not see the line

below is a screenshot taken on EU daily using the data.csv that i posted above
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  • #7
  • May 12, 2010 3:00pm May 12, 2010 3:00pm
Aha, now it is working.
I did not have it on the correct timeframe.

Problem though. It does not project the future trend.
The file has data until December 31, 2010 and on the chart that shows as a steep line downward.

Also, do you think we can open more than one file at the time?

BTW these are Saturn channels. They work quite well on gbpusd.

Thanks!
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  • #8
  • May 13, 2010 7:49am May 13, 2010 7:49am
Sangmane,

I have fixed it by using the "indexshift" function, that way the graph does not drop off after the last bar.

But do you know of another way?

Thanks!
  • #9
  • Edited 2:13am May 14, 2010 2:11am | Edited 2:13am
i've modified it. indicator attached below will automatically calculate the appropriate shift amount based on the latest date in the data

pls share how you use this planetary strategy
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  • #10
  • May 14, 2010 7:31am May 14, 2010 7:31am
Quoting sangmane
i've modified it. indicator attached below will automatically calculate the appropriate shift amount based on the latest date in the data

pls share how you use this planetary strategy
Thank you Sangmane.

They are really support/resistance lines.
The theory is that from Jeanne Long who studied Gann and Gann was known to use planetary cycles in his trading.
He was a big believer in the theories of Faraday. Faraday at his time had a knowledge of magnetic fields way ahead of his time and Gann found a way to use that in trading.
Magnetic fields influence people much more than we want to acknowledge through modern science and Gann knew that.

You can calculate the orbits of the planets and connect them to price. That is what I did on this particular cycle and it works very well for gbpusd.
I now need to do all the other planets...

Thanks!
  • #11
  • May 14, 2010 7:38am May 14, 2010 7:38am
Here is a nice project for you to study.
I found it on a russian forum. Seems to work well.

Also I will include my data file for saturn for the indi you made.
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File Type: zip 298537-PlanetLine.zip   8 KB | 945 downloads
File Type: csv data.csv   8 KB | 717 downloads
  • #12
  • May 14, 2010 9:14am May 14, 2010 9:14am
thanks for the strategy. will take a look at it
  • #13
  • May 30, 2010 1:58am May 30, 2010 1:58am
Quoting Ilovepippin
Here is a nice project for you to study.
I found it on a russian forum. Seems to work well.

Also I will include my data file for saturn for the indi you made.
Hi Ilovepippin,

Most of The files from Russian forum can't be compiled?

tts123
  • #14
  • Last Post: Jun 6, 2012 6:02pm Jun 6, 2012 6:02pm
Hi Sangmane,

I am using this indi to display studies that I make on this software: www.timingsolution.com

I studied a cycle that is 83% correlated to the markets.
I plotted the data onto the chart. This is what it looks like:
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