Flexible Time Charts for MT4

Since someone threatened to make something similar to this and sell it as a commercial product. Here is a free one that I made.
This gives you 96 time frames including tick.
You can chart on the bid, the ask or both and there are a host of other options.

Enable experts on your menu bar and read the documentation.

Put on a chart then it will tell you which offline chart to open.
There is almost no code snippets from LastViking's Renko ea now but it gave me a start so many kudos to him. Let me know of any bugs. You have to keep the chart with the ea on it open. As with all ea if you switch to another profile they halt.

Version number shown on screen.
This is version 2.0

If you cannot get it to work then post a message outlining any messages in the experts tab and which broker you are using and I WILL fix It for you.
Use C_TIME and the TickLines I posted on Post #27 if you want to see tick chart as 2 lines.

Hi Salient,

I'm newbie.
Here is the file. I do not know exactly how to use these as EURUSD 5sec time frame on mt4. please direct again.

Thanks,
YSHIBA

Thank you for uploading something at least. Could you upload the image that goes with this too please. This is the extreme bar tool not the charting tool. Which one do you want?

It would be nice if one of you could upload the charting ea and libs.

Since someone threatened to make something similar to this and sell it as a commercial product. Here is a free one that I made. Copy to FlexiChart to /experts and the other 2 to experts/libraries.

Enable experts etc

params
ChartType - Only time is enabled for this version
CandleTimeFrame Has to be a divisor of 86400
BarSize Ignored for time bars
ReverseSize Ignored for time bars
IsAligned false Ignored for time bars
StrangeSymbolName Set to true if you have symbols with a letter
appended to them
UseSystemTime or server time
StartFresh = false; Start a new chart or not

Put on a chart then it will tell you which offline chart to open.
I used some code from LastViking's Renko ea so kudos to him. Let me know of any bugs. You have to keep the chart with the ea on it open. As with all ea if you switch to another profile they halt.

The first FlexiChart.ex4 I uploaded had to have the StartFresh option to true when you run it on a chart for the first time. I have upgraded that so it should start a new file if there is not one in your history folder.
Update to Ver 1.1 now has version number shown on screen.
Enjoy

Hi, Salient

Please see the image. I use FxPro demo.

Thanks
YSHIBA

This is the extreme bar tool. You should set the chart type to line and the color to none. Right click on chart-properties-Common-Line chart
then select the colors tab and set the Line Graph color to none.
As for the settings.
Lets look at the EURUSD you have set a range of 8 pips over 10 seconds.
Hope this helps. The charting tool is on the first post.

These are Salients files

Oh Thank you Mr Slimtrady you are a scholar and a gentleman.

This is true

hello, this looks great but I have it on my charts and it does not keep 5 second bars.. well it seems to but it misses bar and stands stationary for 10 seconds or more and other times it produces bars quicker than 5 seconds, yet it says 00:00:05 bar at the top, could anyone help as to how to solve this issue?

thanks!

Well I cannot upload to this site so you need to search for flexichart somewhere else

This information is for Flexicharts version 1.5

With regard to the time parameter "UseSystemTime"
If set to True then the computer's system time will be queried and this time will be adjusted by the TimeShiftInHours parameter.
If set to False then the last incoming tick time (last known server time) will be used and this time will be adjusted by the TimeShiftInHours parameter.

"the last incoming tick time (last known server time)" is how MT4 describe this function call. Whether that means any tick or just the tick for this symbol is unknown to me as I have not seen this defined in the documentation. It appears to be any tick.

I have not spent a great deal of time comparing the two but you will most likely get two different times as one would expect there to be a lag on the data feed vs system time. Assuming that your system clock and the data feed server was synchronised. Which is not likely of course.

As for delayed bars etc. If there is no data coming into MT4 then there will be no bars produced. I have not seen any bars that are longer than the bar time chosen. Here is some data from the MT4 5 second history file.

19/11/2010 08:56:45 1.36564 1.36564 1.36568 1.36568 6
19/11/2010 08:56:50 1.36571 1.36571 1.36578 1.36575 6
19/11/2010 08:56:55 1.36578 1.36574 1.36588 1.36588 10
19/11/2010 08:57:00 1.36586 1.36582 1.36588 1.36588 8
19/11/2010 08:57:05 1.36584 1.36583 1.36588 1.36583 11
19/11/2010 08:57:10 1.36581 1.36578 1.36588 1.36583 10
19/11/2010 08:57:15 1.36580 1.36580 1.36582 1.36580 6
19/11/2010 08:57:20 1.36574 1.36572 1.36578 1.36578 10
19/11/2010 08:57:25 1.36575 1.36571 1.36582 1.36582 12
19/11/2010 08:57:30 1.36579 1.36579 1.36588 1.36588 7
19/11/2010 08:57:35 1.36588 1.36588 1.36608 1.36608 9
19/11/2010 08:57:40 1.36608 1.36599 1.36608 1.36599 10
19/11/2010 08:57:45 1.36598 1.36598 1.36608 1.36604 7
19/11/2010 08:57:50 1.36601 1.36601 1.36608 1.36606 6
19/11/2010 08:57:55 1.36604 1.36603 1.36610 1.36603 12
19/11/2010 08:58:00 1.36606 1.36606 1.36629 1.36629 9
19/11/2010 08:58:05 1.36629 1.36617 1.36629 1.36624 13
19/11/2010 08:58:10 1.36622 1.36614 1.36622 1.36619 10
19/11/2010 08:58:15 1.36619 1.36614 1.36619 1.36614 10
19/11/2010 08:58:20 1.36618 1.36601 1.36618 1.36601 9
19/11/2010 08:58:25 1.36603 1.36603 1.36614 1.36614 11
19/11/2010 08:58:30 1.36616 1.36611 1.36618 1.36611 8
19/11/2010 08:58:35 1.36608 1.36606 1.36613 1.36613 7
19/11/2010 08:58:40 1.36611 1.36611 1.36618 1.36613 10
19/11/2010 08:58:45 1.36618 1.36614 1.36623 1.36623 10
19/11/2010 08:58:50 1.36628 1.36622 1.36630 1.36628 12
19/11/2010 08:58:55 1.36627 1.36622 1.36627 1.36622 6
19/11/2010 08:59:00 1.36628 1.36627 1.36628 1.36627 6
19/11/2010 08:59:05 1.36624 1.36624 1.36624 1.36624 4
19/11/2010 08:59:10 1.36618 1.36611 1.36618 1.36614 11
19/11/2010 08:59:15 1.36613 1.36608 1.36618 1.36608 9
19/11/2010 08:59:20 1.36610 1.36593 1.36610 1.36593 11
19/11/2010 08:59:25 1.36612 1.36608 1.36616 1.36612 12
19/11/2010 08:59:30 1.36611 1.36611 1.36618 1.36618 6

cheers

Where can I download this expert?

ExtremeBar:- Where can I?
Read post 1 then see post 2.

The first post has been updated.
I can upload to FF woohoo
also I am looking for some Beta testers for my full version of FlexiCharts.
Please pm me if you are interested.

Here are the possible time values
00:00:00
00:00:01
00:00:02
00:00:03
00:00:04
00:00:05
00:00:06
00:00:08
00:00:09
00:00:10
00:00:12
00:00:15
00:00:16
00:00:18
00:00:20
00:00:24
00:00:25
00:00:27
00:00:30
00:00:32
00:00:36
00:00:40
00:00:45
00:00:48
00:00:50
00:00:54
00:01:00
00:01:04
00:01:12
00:01:15
00:01:20
00:01:30
00:01:36
00:01:40
00:01:48
00:02:00
00:02:08
00:02:15
00:02:24
00:02:30
00:02:40
00:03:00
00:03:12
00:03:20
00:03:36
00:03:45
00:04:00
00:04:30
00:04:48
00:05:00
00:05:20
00:06:00
00:06:24
00:06:40
00:07:12
00:07:30
00:08:00
00:09:00
00:09:36
00:10:00
00:10:40
00:11:15
00:12:00
00:13:20
00:14:24
00:15:00
00:16:00
00:18:00
00:19:12
00:20:00
00:22:30
00:24:00
00:26:40
00:28:48
00:30:00
00:32:00
00:36:00
00:40:00
00:45:00
00:48:00
00:53:20
00:57:36
01:00:00
01:10:30
01:20:00
01:30:00
01:36:00
02:00:00
02:24:00
02:40:00
03:00:00
04:00:00
04:48:00
06:00:00
08:00:00
12:00:00
24:00:00

Many users wanted the chart to look like Oanda's charts, so here it is. This is a screen shot of a 5 second chart with padded bars.

The first post is updated and contains the version 2.0 that supports this. If you would a version with pre compiled favourite settings then let me know.
Bug reports please.

A big thanks from many and me, Salient.

Best to you,

Ron

Salient, I think I have 2.0 set up correctly, but am getting this error:

"Error: invalid function parameter value"

Default settings, on M1 chart, offline M8.

Please advise.

Ron

Hi can you tell me what is displayed in the experts tab, if anything? Also which broker's MT4 you are using.