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  • #1
  • First Post: Sep 24, 2011 9:05am Sep 24, 2011 9:05am
Is there an indicator that will make the bars a bit thicker?
I sometimes use candles and there is an indicator that makes those a bit thicker, but for plain a plain old bar chart I would like it if the bars were a bit thicker?

Is there such an indicator?

PGPB

(PS. I know they get thicker if I zoom the chart)
  • #2
  • Sep 24, 2011 9:38am Sep 24, 2011 9:38am
Quoting pgpb

(PS. I know they get thicker if I zoom the chart)
Which is why nobody has wasted their time to write an indicator to do this.
  • #3
  • Sep 24, 2011 9:52am Sep 24, 2011 9:52am
Quoting CodeMeister
Which is why nobody has wasted their time to write an indicator to do this.
well gee thanks for your astounding help.

In writing documents, I can BOLD words to make it clearer to see.

I simply want the same bolder bars when I am zoomed out.

It may be:

1/ difficult
2/ impossible

Which it fine, I can live with that.

....but your opinion on why there is not an indicator that does that, is just that....an opinion

PS. I am sitting in an airport mult-tasking waiting for a flight for the last 6 hours after having been on a flight for the last 11 hours.....so I am particularly grumpy right now
  • #4
  • Sep 24, 2011 11:16am Sep 24, 2011 11:16am
I am sure you can do it, I have a Heikin Ashi indicator which paints candles over the existing ones & you can adjust the thickness of body & wicks.
It never gets easier, you just get better
  • #5
  • Sep 24, 2011 8:38pm Sep 24, 2011 8:38pm
Quoting Shabs19
I am sure you can do it, I have a Heikin Ashi indicator which paints candles over the existing ones & you can adjust the thickness of body & wicks.
but, this has no correlation to redrawing bar charts. if you can find a way to redraw bar charts without resorting to drawing them in a sub-window then let me know because i'd sure be interested in the way you manage to pull off such impossible trickery. for real.
Congratulations ScalaFX for coming out of the closet!
  • #6
  • Sep 25, 2011 4:26am Sep 25, 2011 4:26am
This indicator draws heikin ashi candles over your normal candles, only with the indicator you can can adjust the body & wick thickness. To remove your standard candles you just select the line graph & make the colour none.
If you can adjust the indicator to draw the normal OHLC data,then you have your own custom candles.
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  • #7
  • Sep 25, 2011 4:39am Sep 25, 2011 4:39am
Quoting Shabs19
This indicator draws heikin ashi candles over your normal candles, only with the indicator you can can adjust the body & wick thickness. To remove your standard candles you just select the line graph & make the colour none.
If you can adjust the indicator to draw the normal OHLC data,then you have your own custom candles.
dude, the question of this thread is about creating custom BAR charts. candlesticks are easy to do in both the main chart as well as sub-windows... and i know this because i have done both with my own various mql projects.

i already know straight-away how i would create custom BAR charts in a sub-window... but as for doing the same thing in the main window.... impossible as far as i currently know!
Congratulations ScalaFX for coming out of the closet!
  • #8
  • Sep 25, 2011 2:04pm Sep 25, 2011 2:04pm
Nah ! Nothing is impossible!

Try this.... not elegant but it does what you ask, or close to it.
Play with it and improve it :-))

HTH
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  • #9
  • Sep 25, 2011 9:13pm Sep 25, 2011 9:13pm
Quoting futurespec
Nah ! Nothing is impossible!

Try this.... not elegant but it does what you ask, or close to it.
Play with it and improve it :-))

HTH
that's just... bad :/
Congratulations ScalaFX for coming out of the closet!
  • #10
  • Sep 26, 2011 12:00am Sep 26, 2011 12:00am
Just knew that you would like it ;-))

Good/bad ? If it works then why knock it!
If you think I'm mad, I must be mad
  • #11
  • Sep 26, 2011 12:24am Sep 26, 2011 12:24am
Quoting futurespec
Just knew that you would like it ;-))

Good/bad ? If it works then why knock it!
"works" in this case is very subjective.

it's visually offensive to look at, so it already has that working against it.... and anytime the open and close of adjacent bars don't happen to match then the indicator won't really be helpful and/or accurately interpretable with your eyes, which defeats the point really.

one man's trash i guess.
Congratulations ScalaFX for coming out of the closet!
  • #12
  • Sep 26, 2011 12:28am Sep 26, 2011 12:28am
Love you too.

LOL

EDIT:

Bit annoyed really; all I did was try to help someone when others were saying it was impossible. Thought it did what was asked even if not "Elegant".
Did not necessarily agree with original request just gave an option.
Cest la vie.

Lesson learnt!!! Do NOT try to help anymore :-(((
If you think I'm mad, I must be mad
  • #13
  • Sep 26, 2011 1:15am Sep 26, 2011 1:15am
Quoting futurespec
Love you too.

LOL

EDIT:

Bit annoyed really; all I did was try to help someone when others were saying it was impossible. Thought it did what was asked even if not "Elegant".
Did not necessarily agree with original request just gave an option.
Cest la vie.

Lesson learnt!!! Do NOT try to help anymore :-(((
awwwww.

my work here is done . no really, i didn't mean to upset you brother.

if the op likes it then so be it, but for me i wouldn't class it as being a solution as per previous post. it'd be better to just build bar charts in a sub-window and do it cleanly that way, which is not that difficult but doesn't resolve the issue of probably wanting it to be on the main chart to be able to plot indicators n shit on.... which is also somewhat able to be accommodated for in a sub-window but it becomes a bit more complex and you simply lose all simplicity of how the main window behaves with price scaling etc and the various options available to using the main window.

all-in-all, as far as i know, it's impossible to cleanly fatten bar charts that mt4 draws in the main window. that's my story and i'm sticking to it until shown otherwise (which i'm keen to see as it would be a learning opportunity).

of course, there's the very painful way of going outside of mt4 via dll's and doing windows API draws to the mt4 canvas to overdraw what's on the screen, but that is seriously overkill effort for something that really isn't important at all to have implemented and so bar charts can just stay the size they are.
Congratulations ScalaFX for coming out of the closet!
  • #14
  • Nov 27, 2014 6:29am Nov 27, 2014 6:29am
Quoting futurespec
Nah ! Nothing is impossible! Try this.... not elegant but it does what you ask, or close to it. Play with it and improve it :-)) HTH {file}

Futurespec, thank you very much for the indicator 'thickbars', was just wondering whether you know how to amend it so that i can just have same colour candle body with different colour wicks? Can do on mt4 ipad, but not on mt4 desktop, really annoying. At the moment, annoyingly, the 'wick colour' surrounds the candle body colour.

Always happy to exchange indicators, trade methods with those that help me.

Regards
Kate
  • #15
  • Nov 23, 2015 4:11am Nov 23, 2015 4:11am
Quoting Shabs19
This indicator draws heikin ashi candles over your normal candles, only with the indicator you can can adjust the body & wick thickness. To remove your standard candles you just select the line graph & make the colour none. If you can adjust the indicator to draw the normal OHLC data,then you have your own custom candles. {image}
I don't think its impossible, been using a custom made bar chart to trade and it does filter the price much better. You can as well adjust the smooth
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  • #16
  • Nov 23, 2015 4:18am Nov 23, 2015 4:18am
Quoting futurespec
Nah ! Nothing is impossible! Try this.... not elegant but it does what you ask, or close to it. Play with it and improve it :-)) HTH {file}
It does work perfectly, i like the thickness and the seize but if someone can adjust the code to paint Red and green bars much better if it can also come with a filter. I found bar charts much better to trade with, it does identify the market structure to determine price action.
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  • #17
  • Sep 21, 2016 8:05am Sep 21, 2016 8:05am
Just put an EMA with a period of 1, make it as thick as you want to and as colorful as you want to and you will be hustling those charts in no time.

-I was searching the internet for that answer and at the end asked my broker, and he immediately told me that this could be a good solution for what I am looking for... those guys always have a great answers and solutions for everything. So simple and right under your nose.. Can't believe I didn't think of it sooner.
  • #18
  • Oct 7, 2016 3:27am Oct 7, 2016 3:27am
try this one:
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File Type: mq4 stochcandles_black_bar.mq4   4 KB | 1,215 downloads
File Type: mq4 thickwick.mq4   5 KB | 1,571 downloads
what we want:1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1=8 what market delivers:1+2+8+7-4+0-5+8-4-5=8
  • #19
  • Aug 29, 2017 5:47am Aug 29, 2017 5:47am
Quoting Shabs19
This indicator draws heikin ashi candles over your normal candles, only with the indicator you can can adjust the body & wick thickness. To remove your standard candles you just select the line graph & make the colour none. If you can adjust the indicator to draw the normal OHLC data,then you have your own custom candles. {image}
Where is the download link?
  • #20
  • Aug 29, 2017 4:38pm Aug 29, 2017 4:38pm
Quoting futurespec
Love you too. LOL EDIT: Bit annoyed really; all I did was try to help someone when others were saying it was impossible. Thought it did what was asked even if not "Elegant". Did not necessarily agree with original request just gave an option. Cest la vie. Lesson learnt!!! Do NOT try to help anymore :-(((
Take no notice of him futurespec, he's got history.

Here is an indicator that I came across a while ago. Personally I don't really know how to use it properly and I can't make it match a normal bar chart exactly but it does allow you to customize the bars (I haven't tried that hard or tried to look online for a solution).

Anyway it might not be what was requested but I think it does prove that it is possible to achieve what pgpb was looking for - I don't have the source file.

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Edit: Just done a quick google search and there are details about the indicator here.
Indentify > Plan > Accept > Execute
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