drawTextRelative behaving as drawTextAbsolute

[Lancer]

For High, Low, Close lines, line labels (drawTextRelative) intended to be displayed in the chart margin (bar +2) relative to the line and current bar are instead remaining at a fixed x-axis point (as if drawTextAbsolute was used).

For example: For a line drawn at the value of the prior day's high.

var vHigh = getValueAbsolute("High", vIndex, vSymbol);

The label is coded as:

drawTextRelative(2, vHigh, " H ", Color.black, Color.lime, Text.BOLD | Text.FRAME | Text.BOTTOM | Text.ONTOP, null, 10, "High");

Instead of what I want, this places the text box at bar 2 after the period the vHigh value is first obtained (beginning of the day), and that's it. It's in the wrong location, and it never moves. What I want to do is have the text box always display in the chart margin on bar 2 to the right of the associated line, always relative to the current bar. I also can't find a text flag that will cause the text box to display on the line centerline; it only displays TOP or BOTTOM.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

[ACM]

Lancer
In the mean time the flag for centering text is Text.VCENTER
Alex

[Lancer]

Thanks Alex, geez that was on the Flags list too. Just missed it.

If it helps, here's the formula I'm working with. The drawTextRelative lines I'm working on start at line 255.

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello Lancer,

Did you try drawTextAbsolute()? Let me know if this does what you want.

[Lancer]

That works. I see what I did. I cut and pasted drawTextRelative() lines from another formula, which in that application, displayed correctly. In my application, drawTextAbsolute() was needed. Thanks Jason.

[Lancer]

Unrelated to drawText, another thing I'd like to fix in this formula (attached in prior post below) has to do with rounding:

What code is needed (and where) to round the values for pivot lines so that the lines are displayed in increments in which the security trades? Example, for index futures: ES needs rounding to .25 increments; NQ needs rounding to .50 increments.

Once I understand how the rounding works, I'll change it as needed per symbol. Thanks for any help.

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello Lancer,

To accomplish this, I added a custom function, roundIt(), which you will see at the bottom of the formula. On lines 231-250, pass the value of the pivot and the rootSymbol to the function. If the rootSymbol is not ES or NQ the function will not perform any rounding.

function roundIt(vNum, rootSymbol) {
    vNum = vNum + "";
    //return eval(vNum);    // enable this line to return to original numbers.
    var cntr = vNum.length;
    if (rootSymbol == "ES ") {          //.25
        var vDiv = 25;
    } else if(rootSymbol == "NQ ") {    //.50
        var vDiv = 50;
    }
    if (rootSymbol == "ES " || rootSymbol == "NQ ") {
        var hold_chr1 = vNum.slice(0, cntr - 3);
        var hold_chr2 = vNum.slice(cntr-2, cntr);
        hold_chr2 = Math.round(hold_chr2/vDiv) * vDiv;
        if (hold_chr2 == 0) hold_chr2 = "0" + hold_chr2;
        if (hold_chr2 == 100) {
            hold_chr2 = "00"
            hold_chr1 = eval(hold_chr1) + 1;
        }
        vNum = hold_chr1 + "." + hold_chr2; 
    }
    return eval(vNum);
} 

[Lancer]

Wow, nice. That's more than I thought it would require. Thanks Jason. I'm finding though, that about half the time it's not rounding on the increment. Here are the NQ values for the regular session today.

R5: 1284.66 EFS Rounded: 1285.00 Should be: 1284.50
R4: 1276.33 EFS Rounded: 1276.50 OK
R3: 1268.00 EFS Rounded: Same OK
R2: 1259.51 EFS Rounded: 1259.50 OK
R1: 1251.33 EFS Rounded: 1251.00 Should be: 1251.50
P: 1242.16 EFS Rounded: 1242.00 OK
S1: 1233.83 EFS Rounded: 1233.50 Should be: 1234.00
S2: 1224.66 EFS Rounded: 1224.50 OK
S3: 1216.33 EFS Rounded: 1216.00 Should be: 1216.50
S4: 1208.00 EFS Rounded: Same OK
S5: 1199.66 EFS Rounded: 1199.00 Should be 1199.50

ES values for the regular session show similar results, for example:

R5: 1020.58 EFS Rounded: 1020.75 Should be 1020.50
R1: 991.91 EFS Rounded: 991.75 Should be 992.00
(and more)

Can you identify the problem?

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hi Lancer,

Found the problem. Here's the new file.

[Lancer]

Hmmm. Now getting value and rounding errors on just about every line. For NQ after-hours session today:

R1: 1255.83 EFS Rounded: 1255.50 Should be 1256.00
P: 1245.16 EFS Rounded: 1245.00 OK
S1: 1234.83 EFS Rounded: 1234.50 Should be 1235.00
S2: 1224.16 EFS Rounded: 1224.00 OK
S3: 1213.83 EFS Rounded: 1213.50 Should be 1214.00
S4: 1203.50 EFS Rounded: 1203.00 Should be 1203.50
S5: 1193.16 EFS Rounded: 1192.50 Should be 1193.00
and so on.. (on 50% midpoint lines too).

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hi Lancer,

Now we should have if fixed. The problem was that some of the pivots were getting rounded and then used in subsequent pivot calculations. Now it will do all the pivot calculations first and then apply the rounding.

[dloomis]

Jason K

I use the following to round up or down to the nearest fractional part of the es

handle=0.25;
var1Round=Var1-Var1%handle+handle;

That line rounds up. To round down, just

handle=0.25;
var1Round=Var1-Var1%handle;

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hi David,

Very cool and efficient method. I've never even looked at that operator before. Thanks for sharing that with us.

[Lancer]

Jason, it looks great. All rounding and values are correct for ES, NQ, and equity symbols. Thank you very much for the help.

David, way to go on that "very cool" from the EFS master.