question for Alex

[ez2njoy]

Hi again,

Alex, or anyone else, I awoke last night in a dream about this study. Not very healthy, I admit, but realized that what I do is create several studies of the same type with different look back periods. I have seen in many of Alex's studies that he sets up a complete set of variable inputs that can be changed in the "edit studies" section of eSignal.

My request is for some assistance in making the look back period a variable so I can only retain one study instead of many to change the look back period.

Your assistance is appreciated.

EZ

[ACM]

EZ
I had already done that. Here is the efs with editable lookback (default is 150)
Alex

[ez2njoy]

sorry Alex. I had your original one with a fixed look back.

Thanks,

EZ

[ACM]

EZ
What I actually meant to say was "I had that already done" ie ready to be posted because I had already implemented that change.
My apologies for having explained myself poorly.
Alex

[vedaball]

Hi Alex,

I am trying to program a 7,3,3, Stochastic but only show the %D line and have it change color from green to red every time it changes direction from up to down and vice versa.

I cannot seem to do it satisfactorily. Can you help?

Thanks for your time

Veda

[ACM]

Veda
The attached efs should do what you asked. All you need to do is set the values to 7,3,3 using Edit Studies
Alex

[vedaball]

Dear Alex,

The attached file is taken from the Formulas/Other folder and is designed to have MACD histogram bars change color depending on whether they are going up or down relative to the previous bar's histogram.

However it doesn'tquite work as it should. What happens is that it changes color based on whether the current tick is above or below the previous tick, as you'll see if you watch it in action. So at the end of a 5-min bar the histogram may show the wrong color and you have to reload it to get it to redraw itself to the right color relative to the previous bar.

Now an obvious solution is to add setComputeOnClose but is there a way you can adjust it so it actually works tick by tick , not just bar by bar?

Thanks in advance for your time and skill.

Veda

[larrydudash]

Re: question for Alex

Originally posted by ez2njoy
Question for Alex.

What does the thermometer.efs do.

I am curious.

Also, thanks for all of your work on compiling the variable efs list that you put together.

Ez2njoy

[larrydudash]

Question for Alex

(1)Can an efs be written that would only show up for one stock?
(2)Example: a horizontal line(where I would entry 35.56) for
a stock like QQQ
(3)Why?
(4)Because I use this same one minute chart for many stocks
by clicking their sysbols.
(5)But only want the 35.56 horizontal line to show up on QQQ

Thnak in advance......again

[ACM]

Larry
Not sure if you are asking about thermometer.efs or not.
If yes click here for a full description.
Alex

[ACM]

Larry
The attached efs should do what you asked.
The symbol with which the line will appear (default is QQQ) and the value of the line (default is 35.56) can be both modified through Edit Studies.
To change the color of the line open the efs with the Editor and modify the color value in the addBand line.
Alex

[larrydudash]

Alex
Very good !

Hey! Take a look at my web site where I tried 5 times to draw
that horizontal line.

It shows "clearly" how much BETTER your efs works !!!

Thanks again

http://www.geocities.com/larrydudash2004/index.html

[ACM]

Veda
I believe the attached fixes the histogram color issue.
It does not however deal with the multiple intrabar alerts. To limit those without resorting to setComputeOnClose() you would need to separate the alerts from the current condition and place them in a condition of their own in a
if(getBartState()==BARSTATE_NEWBAR){
your alert conditions
your alert commands
}
This way the histogram color would continue to paint in real time but the alerts would be issued only when a new bar is plotted.
Hope this helps
Alex

[vedaball]

Alex

That's terrific. Thank you so much

Veda

[larrydudash]

Originally posted by Alexis C. Montenegro
Larry
The attached efs should do what you asked.
The symbol with which the line will appear (default is QQQ) and the value of the line (default is 35.56) can be both modified through Edit Studies.
To change the color of the line open the efs with the Editor and modify the color value in the addBand line.
Alex