time it takes to draw a tick bar

[ez2njoy]

Hi again,

Here goes with another silly question.

Does anyone know of an efs that will display the time (duration) that it takes to draw a tick bar.

Say I am running a 35 tick bar on the NQ. Early in the day the bars draw very quickly. As the day progresses, the bars slow down.

It would be nice at a glance to see how long it took to draw the previous bars.

EZ

[dloomis]

Easy,

try this

function preMain() {
setStudyTitle("");
setCursorLabelName("TTime", 0);
setDefaultBarStyle(PS_SOLID, 0);
setDefaultBarFgColor(Color.red, 0);
setDefaultBarThickness(1, 0);
setPlotType(PLOTTYPE_HISTOGRAM, 0);
}

function main(){
tickTime=(getMinute()-getMinute(-1))*60+getSecond()-getSecond(-1);
return tickTime;
//if he bar takes more than one hour this logic will be wrong, but who cares
}

Enjoy!

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello EZ,

Another thing you could do is record the rawtime at the instance of each new bar. The difference between two bars would be the number of seconds.

var time = null;
var time1 = null;

function main() {
    if (getBarState() == BARSTATE_NEWBAR) {
        time1 = time;
        time = getValue("rawtime");
    }
    if (time1 == null) return;
    
    var vSeconds = time - time1;
    return vSeconds;
}