Plotting Trades on Chart?

[satforce]

Hi,

Is there any way to plot Trades on a chart?, preferbly by entering the time and price entered/exited to plot accurately, simple arrows with price and time details would be good.

At the moment I am doing this manually by using the Line Drawing tools to create an arrow then using the Text box to add details but it seems to take ages and is not very accurate, if there was some kind of EFS that would allow me to enter the details, then do the plotting it would make it a lot more practical and accurate.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards

Jay

[Guest]

Hi satforce,

would you want to enter them one at a time from within the efs (e.g. the edit studies window) or from data within a file?

[satforce]

Hi Steve,

Adding them from the Edit Studies window would be great.

Best regards

Jay

[Guest]

Hi,

I need some help from some people outside of the eastern time zone. I put together an efs for satforce to plot some time buys and sells on the chart. I am using milisecond time to index the buys and sells and would like some testers outside the eastern time zone to post the time obtained when the chart is doubleclicked.

To get to the data (open the notepad file) click on the button created when the chart is doubleclicked. If the button does not work, the output is saved to the eSignal\FormulaOutput folder if that is set as your default output file. For those who want to help, please post timezone you are in as well as the output saved in the file. If possible, two different time zones would be nice.

Thanks in advance.

btw, here is the output from the US eastern time zone

converted current time = 1118010142000
month = 5
current time = 1118024542281
year = 2005
month = 6
day = 3
hour = 15
minute = 47
second = 23
bid = 1198.50
ask = 1198.75
difference = 4 

[Tex50]

*********************************
converted current time = 1118007614000
month = 5
current time = 1118025614750
year = 2005
month = 6
day = 3
hour = 0
minute = 0
second = 0
bid = 0.01
ask = 9000.00
difference = 5


Last candle on CREE DAILY chart
**********************************
converted current time = 1118007743000
month = 5
current time = 1118025743671
year = 2005
month = 6
day = 3
hour = 14
minute = 21
second = 0
bid = 0.01
ask = 9000.00
difference = 5

Last Candle on CREE 39-Minute Chart.
**********************************
USA- Central Time Zone. SE Texas.

Gives me a formula error too, but still outputs.
Line 24 "Below Bar" error or something.

[Guest]

Hi Tex50,

The error you received was relative to an efs2 command, BelowBar2. Thank you for the assistance.

[Guest]

Hi Jay,

Here is a second version of the efs which allows you to put an unlimited number of buy and sell arrows. It is still a bit barebones and does not save the information in a file nor allows you to specify the exact price, but is a step in the right direction.

I went ahead and put a check in for the efs version since I am using some efs2 features.

Hope this helps...

Here is a screenshot



I am still in need of someone from another time zone (e.g. other than mine and Tex50's) to run the efs and post the results - TIA

... and here is the efs

[satforce]

Progress

Hi Steve,

this is great!, it really works and this will save many tedious hours of going from text to Wingdings, Arrows etc.

I am a strong believer in looking at the choices made during a trading day, sometimes those choices which looked so attractive during the heat of battle look like absolute stinkers when looked at after the day is done, and this is my way of doing that, I print, and sometimes I am happy with the choices made and sometimes I wonder what on planet earth was I thinking! All part of the learning process I guess.

By the way, how difficult is it to get the seconds working, as I also use various forms of Tick chart, (12T, 20T etc).

Many many thanks and keep up the excellent work.

Best regards

Jay

[Guest]

Hi Jay,

Good to hear you are finding this helpful. Regarding adding the seconds in, look at line 134:

this.time = t[0]+":"+t[1] /*+":"+getSecond(n)*/; 

remove the /* and */ (stream comment) and replace getSecond(n)with t[2] such that it looks like this:

this.time = t[0]+":"+t[1] +":"+t[2]; 

that will give you put the seconds back in time. Have a nice weekend!

[satforce]

Success!

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your clear instructions, I just added the seconds and it works a treat!

Have a great weekend.

Jay