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Thanks Mike. Yes, barstatus is part of the answer I think. The trick is to
make it trigger "only" on the last complete bar. Sounds like you're thinking
the same way I was. I tried the draw on the first tick thing...seemed
perfect, esp. with the new intrabar persist vars. Only thing is, if the tl
is not "drawn" on every tick, TS removes it. So you have to tl_new on every
tick. For what I am trying to do, my tl_new's are in three dimensions of
loops...don't know if there is a computer alive that could do this and keep
up with every tick on a bunch of emini charts on high vol days. I've been
working on something like... if currenttime is in calculated next bar and
currentdate is same as calc next bar ... only the problem is in the calc of
the next bar d/t, given holidays etc.
Thanks again,
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Gossland" <mgmail@xxxxxxx>
To: "Chris Cheatham" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Omega List"
<omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: last complete bar on chart
> At 02:53 PM 4/24/2005, Chris Cheatham wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am stuck. Trying to write a function in TS 8.1 similar in function to
> >lastbaronchart, except I need it to return true ONLY for the last
COMPLETE
> >bar on chart on an "update every tick" indicator. For example, if I add
the
> >indicator to the chart and it is 11:13, and we're working on the 11:15
> >five-minute bar, I need it to return true for the 11:10 bar so I can
trigger
> >drawing code that is too complex to run real time. (With tls drawn on a
real
> >time bar, they must be theoretically redrawn on every tick, can't be
drawn
> >once and left alone. ) Any ideas would be appreciated. Seems so basic,
but
> >I've been playing with it off and on for three days and have not come up
> >with anything practical.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Chris
>
>
> Hi Chris
>
> I'm not sure whether BarStatus can be of use to you here, but you can look
into it. Here is the Help entry on this Function:
>
> -----------------------------
>
> BarStatus(Reserved Word)
>
> This reserved word is used with multiple data series (same symbol,
different data intervals) or ActivityBar studies to determine whether the
current tick is the opening or closing tick of a bar in the other data
series, or whether it is a trade 'inside the bar.'
>
> BarStatus(DataNum)
>
> DataNum is a numeric expression representing the data stream that is being
evaluated. 1 refers to Data1, 2 to Data2 and so on. DataNum can be between 1
and 50, inclusive.
>
>
> Notes:
>
> This reserved word will return one of four possible values:
>
> 2 = the closing tick of a bar
> 1 = a tick within a bar
> 0 = the opening tick of a bar
> -1 = an error occurred while executing the reserved word
>
> The data series referenced must be applied to the chart. For example, to
use BarStatus (2), a second data series must be applied to the chart.
>
>
> Example
>
> To perform an operation when the ActivityBar is the last trade of the
'big' bar, you could write:
>
> If BarStatus(1) = 2 Then
> {Your Operation Here} ;
>
> . where Data1 is the price chart, and your analysis technique is an
ActivityBar study.
>
>
> Additional Example
>
> The following statements reset the numeric variable Value1 to 0 when the
bar to which the ActivityBar study is applied is closed:
>
> If BarStatus(1) = 2 Then
> Value1 = 0
> Else
> Value1 = Value1 + 1;
>
> ----------------------------
>
> Also, perhaps instead of drawing on the last tick of a fully formed bar,
you could trigger off the first tick of a new bar, and draw with the data up
to the just finished bar.
>
> It is easy to detect whether you are at the first tick on a new bar - just
save the current bar date/time in a global variable, and retrieve the
previously saved ones to see if the current one is different.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Mike Gossland
>
>
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