Bar Count from first bar of day

[werosen]

I'm trying to count the first 60 bars of the trading day from the opening bar, but can't find what will tell me where the first bar of the day starts to begin my counter. Does anyone know how to ID the day's first bar? I'm using a 150 tick bar chart for the Russell 2000.

Thanks

[ACM]

werosen
Create a global variable called for example vCounter and set it to 1. Then in main add the code shown below which will return the bar count from the first bar of the day.
Alex

if(getDay(0)!=getDay(-1)&&getBarState()==BARSTATE_NEWBAR){
        vCounter = 1;//this resets the counter on the first bar of the day 
    }
    else if(getBarState()==BARSTATE_NEWBAR){
        vCounter++;//this increases the counter by 1 at every bar
    } 

[werosen]

Great

Thanks Alex

[Diane P]

Can Count without an efs?

Hi Alex,
I was quite interested in the question Werosen posed & in your response. However, I can't figure out how to just see the bars counted consecutively each day as they unfold, without any efs against which to plot the count. Can that be done? Thanks.
Diane

[ACM]

Diane
You need an efs to do that. However you don't necessarily need to plot the count. You could return it as a string which an efs does not plot but will display in the Cursor Window. To convert vCounter to a string use return vCounter+""; as the return statement and set the efs as a price study
Alex

[Diane P]

Alex,
So basically I can take any efs, say a simple MA, or whatever, & add the info you gave Werosen , and I would be able to see a number count as each bar appears. The numbers would start with 1 at the first bar of the day. Am I at least in the ball park on this? Thanks
Diane

[ACM]

Diane
That is correct. Remember to add a setCursorLabelName("name",series) statement in preMain and to add vCounter+"" in the return statement
In the image below you can see the result after having modified basicMA(s).efs which is in the EFS2 Basic folder. Note that the cursor is on the first bar of the day and the label in the Cursor Window displays 1
Alex

[Diane P]

Thanks, Alex. I'll get right to this. However, I notice that the numbers do not show up on the chart next to the bars, which is what I want to see. Are there any additional steps to accomplish that?
Diane

[ACM]

Diane
In that case you need to write them on the chart using drawTextRelative() or its simplified version drawText()
Alex

[Diane P]

Thanks, again, so much, Alex. I'll get started right away. You are a treasure. I appreciate your time & patience.
Diane