5 Green Bars in the last 5

[Marty]

Hi,

How would I make a paintbar to indicate 3 green bars in the last 5 bars.

Thank you,
Marty

[Jerry Medved]

any 3 of the last 5?  assuming you are using Advanced Mode, just do
if (this.Count(0, 4, Close > Open) > 3)
{
.....
}

If you don't want to include the current candle in the count, then just do 1, 5 instead of 0, 4

NOTE: make sure you are using the BETA version: https://medvedtrader.com/beta

 

[Marty]

Getting an Error on the Chart (small x besides paintbar name)

Compile Errors in Paintbar ID: GHTIJIJTLT, "3 G in 5"
Compile Error at (15,208): Error# CS1041: Identifier expected; 'this' is a keyword
Compile Error at (75,208): Error# CS1002: ; expected
Compile Error at (75,208): Error# CS1525: Invalid expression term ')'
Compile Error at (76,208): Error# CS1002: ; expected

[Jerry Medved]

please show the full paintbar

[Marty]

public void MainCalculation()
{
    if (this.Count(0, 4, Close > Open) > 3)
       
        {
        
         SetColor(002525);
    }

}

Edited January 27, 2019 by Marty

[Jerry Medved]

that post is empty

[Marty]

public void MainCalculation()
{
    if (this.Count(0, 4, Close > Open) > 3)
     
     {
        
         SetColor(002525);
    }

}

[Jerry Medved]

oops, change "this.Count" to be just "Count"

[Marty]

Thanks,

And to activate only during standard market hours(9:30 to 4:00 Eastern Time Zone) would need to add what?

Thanks again.

Edited January 27, 2019 by Marty

[Jerry Medved]

if doing alerts, you can set that in the alert notification.  With just setting the color, it would only show on the paintbar, so why bother? if you don't show ext. hours, it won't show the paintbar.  You can do it in the code, but it is a bit of a pain. 

[Marty]

Yeah I'm not very experienced in code but it would be helpful to have since many people seem to want to add to their Paintbars.

I use this for backtesting.

[Jerry Medved]

BTW, I think your SetColor is probably supposed to be:

         SetColor(0x002525);

or 

         SetColor(0xFF002525);

[Marty]

Was looking at the default Paintbars and noticed that "Def: Unusual Volume" had a small spelling error.

public void MainCalculation()
{
    DefinePaintbarParameter("VOLPERCENTUP", "Percent Up", false, 1, 10000, 1, 50);
    DefinePaintbarParameter("MINVOL", "Minimum Bar Vol", true, 0, 1000000000000, 1000, 1000);
    DefinePaintbarParameter("MINXPRICE", "Min Price", false, 0.0001, 10000, 0.1, 5);
    DefinePaintbarParameter("MAXPRICE", "Max Price", false, 0.0001, 10000, 0.1, 1000);

    if (Volume_Bar > Volume_EMA * (1 + GetPaintbarParameter("NUMTOCHECK")) 
        && Volume_Bar >= GetPaintbarParameter("MINVOL")
        && SymbolData.Last >= GetPaintbarParameter("MINPRICE")
        && SymbolData.Last <= GetPaintbarParameter("MAXPRICE"))
    {
        SetColorAndShape("Vol Up", PBShape.ArrowUp_Hollow, SysColor.VolumeUp);
        TriggerAlert("Vol Up");
        SetScanResult(100);
    }
}

 

I think  "DefinePaintbarParameter("MINXPRICE", "Min Price", false, 0.0001, 10000, 0.1, 5);"
should be "MINPRICE"

Thanks again for your help
Now working on Having a 1% change in the last 5 candles.

[Jerry Medved]

thanks. Yes, was a typo

[Marty]

Doing the following but seems that negative numbers are being seen as positive ones.
Ex.
-0.02 + 0.05 + -0.01 = 0.02 but in my formual it is being calculated as 0.08

 

public void MainCalculation()
{
    DefinePaintbarParameter("AMOUNT", "Change in Cents", false, 0.01, 1000, 0.01, .01);
    
    if ((Close[2] - Open[2]) + (Close[1] - Open[1]) + (Close[1] - Open[1]) > GetPaintbarParameter("AMOUNT")
        
    &&  Close[2] < Open[2]  
    )
     
  {   
    SetColor("Color",0xFF82FF4E);
 }
}

[Jerry Medved]

how exactly are you seeing it evaluated to 0.08?

[Jerry Medved]

note that you are checking [1] candle twice.

if ((Close[2] - Open[2]) + (Close[1] - Open[1]) + (Close[1] - Open[1]) > GetPaintbarParameter("AMOUNT")

[Marty]

On my chart I see the paintbar appear and disappear when I go up and down in .01 increments and I see it is calculating negative numbers as positive.

Oops that must be it, time to stop for the day, getting tired

[Jerry Medved]

1) you can make it less error prone and easier to read by using the SUM function:
   Sum(3, Close - Open) > GetPaintbarParameter("AMOUNT")

2) you can set the Scan Result to show the result of that sum function unconditionally. 
That way you can see what MT is totaling for the last 3 candles for the symbols in the portfolio 
if you run the scan (turn OFF the filtering)

public void MainCalculation()
{
    DefinePaintbarParameter("AMOUNT", "Change in Cents", false, 0.01, 1000, 0.01, .01);
    if ( Sum(3, Close - Open) > GetPaintbarParameter("AMOUNT") && Close[2] < Open[2] )
    {
        SetColor("Color",0xFF82FF4E);
    }
    SetScanResult(Sum(3, Close - Open).ToString("#,###.00##"));
}

[Marty]

Wow, yes this is great.
Thank you so much.