Current bar timer

[sc1317]

Is there an EFS, or could someone help me in constructing one that would give a visual of the time required to form a bar on a tick or volume chart..

Let me explain..I trade the YM on a 133T chart and have found that if it takes LONGER than 1:45 to form a bar that the trade's success rate is really decreased.

What I would like to see is this:

1. As soon as the bar starts printing the timer would start with a box that is lime.

2. When the time reaches 1:30, this box would then change to Yellow.

3. When the time reaches 1:45 the box turns Red.

4. Possible audio alert at 1:45 also, but not requirement.

This efs would in fact help every tick/volume chart trader in choppy or slow markets keeping one out of trades when the volume is low.

Currently I am using Woodies CCI efs, which has a bar timer, but appears that it is PRIOR bar.

Can anyone help me?

Racer

[ACM]

Racer
Try the attached efs. This is a modification of RemainingBarTime.efs which was originally programmed by JasonK.
It now computes the time elapsed from the beginning of the bar and if that time is less than 1 min 30 secs it colors the numbers in green, if between 1:30 and 1:45 in yellow and above 1:45 in red
Alex

[sc1317]

Alex..As always you are the BEST!!

Thanks..Exactly what I wanted..

Racer

[dloomis]

I looked at the code and could not determine why the numerals turned green after 10:10 or so

May not be an issue, but thought it was interesting.

[ACM]

David
I believe it is happening because these statements in lines 34-35
if (vMin < 10) vMin = ("0" + vMin);
if (vSec < 10) vSec = ("0" + vSec);
convert the numbers to strings only when they are less than 10. If both vMin and vSec are greater than 10 then they are considered numbers hence vMin+vSec becomes an arithmetic operation instead of two strings concatenated
To fix this add the following after line 37
vMin = vMin+"";
vSec = vSec+"";
At this point vMin and vSec are always strings
Alex

[ACM]

The attached revision of the efs fixes the issue reported by David albeit with a different solution than the one I originally suggested (see lines 34-35) and corrects the study title.
Alex