Doug Hayman

Wow, that was easy. Was not aware that Charts have an associated time frame. I just needed a filter to examine paintbar logic during trading hours. Thanks!

Hey guys, I am applying a Paintbar to MES CME micro futures ticker. I established a user-defined time frame in MT Settings to be from 9:30 AM ET to 4:15 PM ET, and have made this my Default time frame setting. Why does the following C++ code snippet not restrict my paintbar rules to be restricted to the above hours only? ...... } Thanks in advance.

Excellent guys, thanks. I wasn’t aware of how to obtain the current candle state. That will work just fine.

Hi guys, I have a strategy that makes use of Range Bars. I would like to provide an audible alert every time a range bar completes. Is there any way to achieve this (via Paintbar call or Other means)? Thanks in advance.

Easy for you to say as the Designer! I wasn't aware of that feature. Much better, and safer. Thanks again!

Hi Jerry, No personal harm done today, but this is the 2nd time I've done this. I recognize that you auto-center price on the DOM in a slow fashion to avoid whipsaw re-centering, but in a fast moving market, it is sometimes necessary to manually re-center price on the DOM. That said, when I manually tried to center price on DOM, I inadvertently pressed "11 contracts" by accident, which is way more than I trade with. Fortunately I caught the error before my trade was executed. Suggesting that a setting option be made to keep the re-center button where it is (for those that like it there), but also have option to move it to the center of the Grey areas on both sides of the DOM on outside border, which is where we would want prices center, and which isn't used for any mouse click action currently.

Excellent! Thank you!

Good morning. Is there a way to suppress the displaying of active Paintbar names (and Indicator names) from appearing on the MAIN portion of an Intraday Chart? When I have smaller chart windows on my MT desktop, these names tend to display across top of chart which can be disruptive to visualizing bars and/or indicators that are at the top right portion of these screens. Thanks in advance.

OK, thanks for clarifying, Mike.

Hi Jerry, I use Pivot points on my intraday chart which are DAILY Pivots. If I want to access these pivot values in Paintbar code, should I be creating variables that are either: 1) Pivot Points (Intraday) and select DAILY; OR 2) Pivot Points (Historical) and select DEFAULT Thanks in advance.

Wow, you're on fire! Great again, wasn't aware of this. Thanks!

A nice addition to the Draw Line feature would be to specify a horizontal line to be drawn at a specified value. For example, on a daily basis I draw a line for the prior day's High/Low. Of course, it can be done manually now, but sometimes with scaling, it can be a little tedious.

That worked great, thanks!

OK thanks, I'll try that. I interpreted "None Seconds" as an immediate clear.

I have a paintbar that assists me with trading that works well graphically, but not in sound. In the code, I have Trigger Alerts defined in code for both a Buy Stop and a Sell Stop. I paint bars in the same block of code as the alerts, and the painting of the bars work fine 100% of the time. For these 2 alerts, I also have Sound alerts defined, with the following settings: When Triggered, clear after None Seconds (default setting) When Clear, restart after "Immediate" Minutes (default setting) Everything else checkbox-wise is turned off except for "Play Sound", and i have respective 'Buy Stop' and 'Sell Stop' audio sound .m4a files defined for them. The audio alerts are going off sporadically, but not consistently. There are times when my Paintbar result is displayed graphically, but no sound alert. Have you seen this before?

Awesome again, thanks! Vaguely remember this from years ago from QT days, and didn't know of its availability. This will save me hours/days of work over writing a program to parse tick data file and construct OHLCV.

Follow-up question please: Is there any way to generate CSV or ASCII files for TimeBar data (1 min, 5min, etc) containing OHLCV data, from within MT? I could write a program that uses the tick data CSV file discussed above that parses and constructs this type of data from it, but I was hoping that it somehow can be generated from within MT. My interest in this is to facilitate the importing of this data into a backtesting system of mine, but this system requires tick data to be in OHLCV format.

Awesome! Thank you so much!

Is there a way to export quote data (tick data) in ASCII or CSV format, or is that a violation of data feed vendor's agreement?

Ok, fair enough. It was a fast moving market at the time, and I didn’t execute my desired Sell Stop in time. I’ll shake the mouse next time. Thanks.

Sorry, I have AUTO->OTOCA selected. What I'm saying is that my cursor is position on Sell Side of DOM and Sell Stop is displayed in the bubble (but I haven't executed trade yet). Market price goes below this Sell Stop price, but I still haven't executed trade. On the Cursored price, it still says Sell Stop in the bubble as the order. My question is once market price dips below this original price, and I'm still cursored on the original price, should MT change the potential trade executed at this price to be a LIMIT STOP instead of a Sell Stop? When I execute trade at this original price, once market price is lower than this price, it executes as a Stop Market at the current market price. Does my explanation make sense?

Hi Jerry, Trading MES futures, and have my cursor on the DOM for an OTOCA Sell Stop, but have not entered order yet. While my cursor is on a specific price on the DOM (but not yet executed) the price runs below the price I am cursored at for the Sell Stop. I execute trade, and am I filled at approximately current market price. So my question is, should I have been executed as a Sell Stop, or should I have had order submitted as a Limit Order at the price my DOM cursor was at (which is what I was hoping)? To change that Stop Sell order to a Limit Order I would have had to move my cursor off the Sell side and repositioned at the same price to make it a Limit Order. Comments?

Don't knock yourself out on this one. Purely a nice-to-have. I typically use 68/32, instead of 70/30. It really won't make a major difference to me either way, except for the shading part, but I'm using a paintbar to provide me with the RSI check anyway (among other things). Thanks anyway.

Not a major big deal, but if it would be easy to implement, I would like to see custom upper/lower thresholds to be allowed to be defined and displayed graphically for RSI. Thanks in advance.

Dang! That's it. I didn't know I had to set the port # on Settings / Data Sources / Config Accounts. I thought my selecting the Source to Interactive Brokers, it took care of itself. Thank you very much for setting me straight! I had been running with existing accounts for so long, before accidentally deleting my Simulated acct, that I forgot about that setting.