Horizontal Band instead of Line

[trhudson]

Is it possible to create a horizontal band that would change the background color between a range, say the high and low of the 1st hour, or something like that?

Thanks,

Todd Hudson

[ACM]

Todd
Click here and download HiLo_firstXminutes.efs which will plot the High-Low range in the first user defined number of minutes.
Then open the efs with the Editor and add the following line just before the return statement
setBarBgColor(Color.yellow,0,vLow2,vHigh2);
Replace yellow with a color of your choice. This will color the background contained between the High/Low of the first nn minutes.
Alex

[trhudson]

Thanks,


Todd Hudson

[prawles]

Hi .. I cna get the range(high to low) to plot but is there a way to plot the range from the the first bar to the last bar of the day?

Thanks

Patrick

[ACM]

Patrick
Do you mean that you want to plot lines for the daily High and Low?
Alex

[prawles]

Well ... say I want to plot the average range.. and plot it for the day by changing the BG color from the opening bar forward .. 6.75 hours. From the range high/low. I suspect that this can't be done because the BG bar can't be set for a bar that hasn't plotted yet. Now that I think about it... LOL

[prawles]

But I would like to know if I set the chart BG color for a region of the chart..

[ACM]

Patrick
You can using the yMin, yMax optional parameters in setBarBgColor()
Enclosed below is an example and in the image that follows you can see the result
Alex

function preMain(){
    setPriceStudy(true);
    setStudyTitle("BG example");
    setShowCursorLabel(false);
}
function main(){

    setBarBgColor(Color.lightgrey,0,1200,1220);
    
    return;
} 

[prawles]

Thanks Alexis ... got it