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RE: [amibroker] Re: Color coding of bars



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Have you sent a query direct to TJ about this? He does not always read every
email in the group. 

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Graham
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-----Original Message-----
From: Global Investor [mailto:independent_opinion@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, 19 May 2003 6:12 PM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [amibroker] Re: Color coding of bars

  no offense, Jayson, I really appreciate answers, but were my posts so 
difficult to understand?

If preferences/charting/candlesticks is set to none, the body of  
_every_ candle gets filled and one is no longer able to distinguish 
filled from hollow candles.  Of course, in the mode 
"preferences/charting/candlesticks=none" up-/downcandles could be 
distinguished by giving them different colors, but then the color 
information is used for distinguishing up/down-candles and cannot 
simultaneously be used for other things such as indicating a trend.

I've attached a picture how one of my color coders looks unter Metastock:

Notice that:

(1) the way how up-/downcandles are distinguished is not the color, but 
the fact whether or not they are filled. Upcandles are always hollow, 
ie. the body is filled in the background color, downcandles are always 
filled.

(2) separately and independent of (1), no matter whether a candle is an 
upcandle or downcandle, the individual candle color can be set to 
indicate trends or other technical criteria.


It appears to me that it is NOT possible to reproduce my Metastock color 
coder with Amibroker.  With the code I posted in msg. 40704, it is 
possible to change the color of the candle outline in AFL;  the candle 
body is always drawn in the color specified in preferences/colors, when 
the "preferences/charting/candlesticks=body outline and shadows".   Only 
the latter mode would be equivalent to Metastock, the other modes would 
be a loss of information, hence being inferior.   I also proposed a 
solution in msg. 40706, probably another another variable would need to 
be introduced, e.g. GraphNCandleBodyColor.

 I noticed that Thomasz Janecko was posting in this group today, and if 
he has time, I'd appreciate a comment from him regarding this issue, as 
possibly only he can tell whether or not the current conceptual design 
of Amibroker allows to reproduce a color coder exactly as the one in the 
screenshot attached below.     If it is not possible, I'd like to know 
whether he would be willing to implement my proposed solution (so that 
I'm not forced to start an open-source charting project; the ability to 
color code as in Metastock is one of the killer criteria for me).












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