Help with tickbartime.efs

[Himalaya]

Could this study be made to plot directly under the bar/candle it is plotting? In real time?


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

function main(){
tickTime=(getMinute()-getMinute(-1))*60+getSecond()-getSecond(-1);
if(tickTime>0)
return tickTime;
else return 0;
//if the bar takes more than one hour this logic will be wrong, but who cares




Any help would be appreciated.

[ACM]

Himalaya
Not exactly sure as to what you want to plot so here are two sets of code with corresponding images showing the results.
Alex

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

function main(){

var tickTime=(getMinute()-getMinute(-1))*60+getSecond()-getSecond(-1);

if(tickTime<0)
return 0;

return  tickTime;
} 

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

function main(){

var tickTime=(getMinute()-getMinute(-1))*60+getSecond()-getSecond(-1);

if(tickTime>0)
drawTextRelative(0,low(),tickTime,Color.blue,Color.white,Text.BOLD|Text.TOP,"Arial",12,1);

return  ;
} 

[Himalaya]

TT

Alex,

Thanks for taking a look at this.

It still seems that the time histogram is still offset +1 from the its actual price bar.

Also it gives a lot of zero seconds bars

I run volume bars/candles on most all of my charts, could this cause a problem?

Basically looking for a way to measure how many seconds it took to build each volume bar/candle, in real time

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello Himalaya,

I think this might be what you need. Test it out and let me know.

TickBarTime2.efs

[Himalaya]

Jason/TickBarTime2.efs

Jason,

Would it be possible to take the TickBarTime2.efs and add the feature of drawing two horizontal lines x points/ticks above and below the midpoint of a bar if that bar's TickBarTime was less than x seconds?

The attached gif shows what the study would look lilke.

The TickBarTime2.efs is measuring the speed of trades when placed on volume/tick bars. If the horizontal lines could be drawn around this increased speed of trade area it would create a "Speed Trap" to trade off of.

Thanks in advance

Himalaya

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello Himalaya,

We can't draw lines on the price window from a non-price study. You'll have to run a second formula as a price study that does the line drawing. Try the following, TickBarTime3.efs.

[Himalaya]

Thank you Jason

Thank you Jason

Does the job perfectly!

Himalaya