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Bryant Tharp <bulldog5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> asks:
>Is there a way to mark a price with a showme as it occurs inside an
>unfinished bar. I have entrys that are tick dependent that occur at
>a price as a bar is forming on a 610 tick chart. So far the options
>seem to be open, high, low, close this is not very effective. I
>would like to be able to mark the price that triggers the entry, is
>this possible?
You can certainly do this, with the aid of a third-party Global
Variables program (to remember the intra-bar state), on a real-
time chart, as the real-time data fills the chart. You can't
do it with historical data, as in backtesting, or to mark the
entries on a chart when you first load data into it.
Keep in mind that the first new tick that arrives after you load the
initial data into your 610-tick chart will begin a new 610-tick bar,
irregardless of how many ticks there were in the last loaded bar.
Also, for two-session data, like the 24-hour S+P, the historical bars
will all contain 610 ticks, except (possibly) the last bar of
Session1, while the real-time bars will start a new bar at the
beginning of Session1. This phenomenon can make your real-time
charts look quite a bit different from your historical charts, with
the same data.
Jim
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