RE: [amibroker] Re: coloring candlesticks according to code?

["Thomas Z." <tzg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve,

 

i fully agree with you. I have suggested it already some years ago to
Tomasz.

I would really like to have this possibility.

Currently I use filled candles as shown in my snapshot. 



 

Thomas

 <http://www.tradingbasis.com/> www.tradingbasis.com

 

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Subject: [amibroker] Re: coloring candlesticks according to code?

 


Thomas,

> Yes, it's easy, take a look:

What's not easy is getting Marcin and Tomasz to realize that you 
still cannot independently outline the colored candles (e.g., in 
black) to make them stand out better from the background chart 
color. 

I refer you to (my) Issue #36 on the Amibroker website. Look at 
the side-by-side pic associated with that report. You can try 
flipping between:

1. Body outline and shadows
2. Body outline only
3. Shadows only
4. None, up candle solid
5. None, up candle hollow

And nothing will allow you to outline user-specified candle colors 
while still maintaining the solid body colors you programmed in for 
each specific candle.

But Tomasz is the boss. If he wants to believe that what I reported 
can be done in Amibroker, then, when I clearly show that you cannot, 
there's nothing else I can do but drop the issue and live with it. 
Tomasz is super busy with more important issues that some of these 
little things that make charts pleasing to the eye wind up getting 
thrown to the wayside.

[I'll bet its a trivial amount of C++ code to fix this issue.]

Steve

P.S. Tomasz constructively criticised a poster in this forum for not 
being able to be more specific (in comparing Ensign charts with 
Amibroker)when he said that "Amibroker charts don't seem as 'crisp' 
as Ensign's". Well, what I'm talking about here is a specific 
example of how a detail like this makes your charts look 
more "crisp". Look at those side-by-side eSignal/Amibroker pics I 
posted with that Issue #36. The left one is "crisp". The right one 
blends too much with the background color I like to have on my 
charts.

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:amibroker%40yahoogroups.com> ps.com,
"Thomas Z." <tzg@xxx> wrote:
>
> Yes, it's easy, take a look:
> 
> 
> 
> Candlecolor = IIf(C>O,colorGreen,IIf(C<O,colorRed,colorLightBlue));
> 
> Plot(C,"C",Candlecolor,styleCandle);
> 
> 
> 
> Thomas
> 
> <http://www.tradingb <http://www.tradingbasis.com/> asis.com/>
www.tradingbasis.com
> 
> 
> 
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> Of sdp_51
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> Subject: [amibroker] coloring candlesticks according to code?
> 
> 
> 
> i want to color candlesticks according to some logic in my code, 
not 
> whether down or up, is this possible?
> 
> i hope so
>

 




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