Tick Size

[Gavishti]

Does anyone know of a way to retrieve the tick size other than making it a function parameter? I've looked through help and found nothing. I have some algorithms that rely on it and would prefer to retrieve it without making it a parameter.

Thanks.

[dloomis]

Re: Reply to post 'Tick Size'

I always set a parameter

if(es)handle=0.25else handle = 0.5

[Gavishti]

I was looking for something broader. I don't want to have a list of every possible symbol to process. It would be bigger than the rest of the efs. I know there is a function to properly format the display price. Something like formatPrice(). Don't remember the exact syntax right now. Thought maybe something might be related to that.

Thanks.

[dloomis]

Recently Steve Hare posted an efs named trace that has formatting code examples, but I beleive you are referring to the x.toFixed(2) function for displaying results with 2 decimals - and as a string. Multiplying by 1 converts that string back to a number, fyi.

[Gavishti]

David,

This is the function to which I was referring.

formatPriceNumber( nValue )

This function will return a string with nValue correctly formatted for the chart that is being displayed. This is useful for converting a bar value to a chart display value when working with bonds, notes, currencies or any other instrument that has special formatting requirements.

It is pretty handy for display values. Works well with every symbol I have tried it on.

Perhaps it is time for an email to [email protected].

Thanks.

[Gavishti]

Here is a routine that I came up with to get by until eSignal releases a getTickSize() function. It seems to work. Issues that don't have tight spreads may have problems. I tried it on a few lower volume stocks and got back TkSz of .02. Figure it is a matter of luck whether you find the spread in a short time. For these issues you would just have to run the block longer. Of course fTkSz needs to be initialized to an appropriately large number. I used 1000.

// TEST BLOCK FOR FINDING TICK SIZE
if (getBarState() == BARSTATE_NEWBAR)
{
iBr++;
if (iBr < 34)
{
fTkSz = fTkSz < getMostRecentAsk() - getMostRecentBid() ?
fTkSz : getMostRecentAsk() - getMostRecentBid() > 0 ?
Math.round((getMostRecentAsk() - getMostRecentBid()) * 100) / 100 :
fTkSz;
debugPrintln(fTkSz);
}
}