Volume Breakdown / Cumulative Delta Momentum Print indicator - text float problem

treydog999 · (login for full post details)

Alright so I have created a VB style print that plots in text the cumulative delta momentum (single bar value) on the bottom of the chart. However there is a slight problem, the float only works for bars created real time. other wise it just puts it some displacement from the bar. I want it to float all the time. But none the less this indicator works, its only the aesthetics that are messed up.

Basically you put cumulative delta as data 1/2/3, use data select input to set that. then it will plot at the bottom of your candle chart the delta of that bar.

If someone could tell me how to float historical text objects so they all line up that would be awesome

Code

input: Upcolor(rgb(73, 120, 168)), downcolor(rgb(168, 73, 96)),
 NeutralColor(lightgray), TickDisplace( .0005 ), textsize(10), dataselect(3), screenpercent(5);
vars: Cvalue( 0 );

//data and calcs
if dataselect = 1 then
Cvalue = close of data1 - open of data1;

if dataselect = 2 then
Cvalue = close of data2 - open of data2;

if dataselect = 3 then
Cvalue = close of data3 - open of data3;

//Plot text
value1 = text_new(date,time,low - Tickdisplace, numtostr(Cvalue,0));

//stylize text
text_setstyle(value1,2,1);	
text_setsize(value1,textsize);

if cvalue > 0 then
	text_setcolor(value1,upcolor)
else
	text_setcolor(value1,downcolor);
	
value2 = text_Float(value1,0,screenpercent);

note:
if i do last bar and float them with a last bar flag. then it wont display historical values but all of them will be lined up as only bars the platform was here for are printed.

ABCTG · (login for full post details)

Hi treydog999,

this will probably take a little bit of programming.

When you use RecalcLastBarAfter, aiHighestDispValue and aiLowestDispValue that are used within the Text_Float function to return the highest and
lowest value for the currently displayed screen, will work on historical bars, too.
This alone doesn't help you of course, as you'd need to access all text IDs on the currently visible chart screen. This probably needs two steps, first store the barnumber for each bar
in a map (or array) using the datetime as map key and store each text ID within a map (or an array, but I'd suggest using a map and the ELCollections.DLL) and using the barnumber as the map key.

In a next step you'd have to get the datetime for the bar most left on the screen using aiLeftDispDateTime and the one on the right using aiRightDispDateTime. Use these two values to retrieve the barnumber
for the most left and most right bars and with these loop through the first map, retrieve each text ID and change the text location to the value of your choice.

Unfortunately I am not sure if there is something simpler, but the above should work. Although it might be too much work just for the aesthetics.

Regards,
ABCTG

SPMC · (login for full post details)

The easiest way is it to spilt the text into a realtime part and a history part:

Code

input: Upcolor(rgb(73, 120, 168)), downcolor(rgb(168, 73, 96)),
 NeutralColor(lightgray), TickDisplace( .0005 ), textsize(10), dataselect(3), screenpercent(5);
vars: Cvalue( 0 ),RTDELTA_Text(0),HistDelta_Text(0);
{
//data and calcs
if dataselect = 1 then
Cvalue = close of data1 - open of data1;

if dataselect = 2 then
Cvalue = close of data2 - open of data2;

if dataselect = 3 then
Cvalue = close of data3 - open of data3;}

//data and calcs
if dataselect = 1 then
Cvalue = close of data1 - Close[1] of data1;

if dataselect = 2 then
Cvalue = close of data2 - Close[1] of data2;

if dataselect = 3 then
Cvalue = close of data3 - Close[1] of data3;

Once 
begin
		RTDELTA_Text = text_new_S (DATE, Time_S, 0, "") ;
		text_SetStyle 		(RTDELTA_Text, 2, 1) ;
   		 
end;

if barstatus (dataselect ) = 2 then 
begin
	//Plot text
	HistDelta_Text = text_new_S(date,time_S,GetAppInfo( aiLowestDispValue ) + 0.01 * screenpercent*
		 ( GetAppInfo( aiHighestDispValue ) - GetAppInfo( aiLowestDispValue ) )  , numtostr(Cvalue,0));

	//stylize text
	text_setstyle(HistDelta_Text,2,1);	
	text_setsize(HistDelta_Text,textsize);

	if cvalue > 0 then
		text_setcolor(HistDelta_Text,upcolor)
	else if cvalue = 0 then
		text_setcolor(HistDelta_Text,NeutralColor)	
	else 
		text_setcolor(HistDelta_Text,downcolor);

	value1 = GetAppInfo( aiLowestDispValue ) ;
	value2 = GetAppInfo( aiHighestDispValue ) ;
end;

if LastBarOnChart_s then 
begin
	Text_SetString (RTDELTA_Text, numtostr(Cvalue,0));
	if cvalue > 0 then
		text_setcolor(RTDELTA_Text,upcolor)
	else if cvalue = 0 then
		text_setcolor(RTDELTA_Text,NeutralColor)	
	else
		text_setcolor(RTDELTA_Text,downcolor);
	text_SetStyle 		(RTDELTA_Text, 2, 1) ;
	Text_SetLocation_s 	(RTDELTA_Text,date, time_s, GetAppInfo( aiLowestDispValue ) + 0.01 * screenpercent*
		 ( GetAppInfo( aiHighestDispValue ) - GetAppInfo( aiLowestDispValue ) )  );
	text_setsize(RTDELTA_Text,textsize);

end;

if barstatus (dataselect ) = 2 and LastBarOnChart_s then 
begin
	if value1 <> value1 [1] or value2 <> value2 [1] then recalculate;
	
end;

treydog999 · (login for full post details)

@SPMC

Thanks for the indi. however I am having problems with the switch from historical to real time. You can see here that there is a gap of values. They appear on the real time candle but then gap until the historical time series.

SPMC · (login for full post details)

Could you post a complete chart with the data2/3 not hidden? Could it be that you have different settings in data1 and data2 (resolution, sessions, time zone)?

treydog999 · (login for full post details)

SPMC

Could you post a complete chart with the data2/3 not hidden? Could it be that you have different settings in data1 and data2 (resolution, sessions, time zone)?

i double checked all sessions are the same and time zones.

SPMC · (login for full post details)

As i have IQFeed and the code works, it seems that one problem is that at CQG the charts are not fully synchronized. Your upper chart shows a timestamp of 14:04:06.050 and both on the bottom a timestamp
of 14:05:21.093.
So barstatus (1) = 2 could be different to barstatus (3) = 2 .

Try to change the both lines with

if barstatus (dataselect ) = 2 then

to

if barstatus (1 ) = 2 then

treydog999 · (login for full post details)

SPMC

As i have IQFeed and the code works, it seems that one problem is that at CQG the charts are not fully synchronized. Your upper chart shows a timestamp of 14:04:06.050 and both on the bottom a timestamp
of 14:05:21.093.
So barstatus (1) = 2 could be different to barstatus (3) = 2 .

Try to change the both lines with

if barstatus (dataselect ) = 2 then

to

if barstatus (1 ) = 2 then

You're dead on, its because data 1 is M6E so there is a slight mismatch in time stamps.

Rockford · (login for full post details)

Hi,
I'm saving this in Tradestation as an .ELD, and when I do I'm getting this error:

Unknown Identifier, Line 27.
RTDELTA_Text = text_new_S (DATE, Time_S, 0, "") ;

(Also, I added the change made by SPMC in his last post).

Should it be FOR VOLUME USE: "Trade Volume" or "Tick Count" ?

I'm not coder. If someone could help me out, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks,
Rockford

ABCTG · (login for full post details)

Rockford,

Text_New_s and Time_s are specific to Multicharts and not available in Tradestation. For starters you can simply remove the "_s", this will be accurate on minute charts (and higher). If you use non time based bars you might have to change the code to handle the drawings via Object Oriented EasyLanguage.

Regards,

ABCTG

Rockford · (login for full post details)

ABCTG

Rockford,

Text_New_s and Time_s are specific to Multicharts and not available in Tradestation. For starters you can simply remove the "_s", this will be accurate on minute charts (and higher). If you use non time based bars you might have to change the code to handle the drawings via Object Oriented EasyLanguage.

Regards,

ABCTG

Thank you very much for the help ABCTG.

I'm getting an error on Line 40 now...
text_setsize(HistDelta_Text,textsize);

What do I do with this?

Rockford

ABCTG · (login for full post details)

Rockford,

it's always helpful to include any error message. In this case it's easier, though: Text_SetSize is not available in legacy EasyLanguage. You'll have to remove the line.

Regards,

ABCTG

Rockford · (login for full post details)

Hi ABCTG, I had to completely remove the end of the code. Will it be ok?

if barstatus (1 ) = 2 then and LastBarOnChart_s then

begin
if value1 <> value1 [1] or value2 <> value2 [1] then recalculate;

end;

Thanks,
Rockford

ABCTG · (login for full post details)

Rockford,

it should not be a big deal. There is a huge one, though. I just looked at what the code does from the above screenshots and it appears to be using cumulative delta as datastreams. Tradestation doesn't offer these as bars, so you couldn't get the same results simply because you can't feed the code the data it needs. You might want to browse the Tradestation forums as there might be studies that use the data that Tradestation supplies for displaying delta.

Regards,

ABCTG

Rockford · (login for full post details)

ABCTG

Rockford,

it should not be a big deal. There is a huge one, though. I just looked at what the code does from the above screenshots and it appears to be using cumulative delta as datastreams. Tradestation doesn't offer these as bars, so you couldn't get the same results simply because you can't feed the code the data it needs. You might want to browse the Tradestation forums as there might be studies that use the data that Tradestation supplies for displaying delta.

Regards,

ABCTG

Hi ABCTG,

The only one I was able to find here or online was the following one, but I don't know enough about Cumulative Delta to know if I can trust this code. Please let me know if you have an opinion.

https://futures.io/download/tradestation/

Thank you for your time ABCTG,
Rockford

ABCTG · (login for full post details)

Rockford,

I don't know the code and haven't tested it. So I am afraid, I can't give you any opinions on that.

Regards,

ABCTG

Rockford

Hi ABCTG,

The only one I was able to find here or online was the following one, but I don't know enough about Cumulative Delta to know if I can trust this code. Please let me know if you have an opinion.

https://futures.io/download/tradestation/

Thank you for your time ABCTG,
Rockford

Rockford · (login for full post details)

ABCTG

Rockford,

I don't know the code and haven't tested it. So I am afraid, I can't give you any opinions on that.

Regards,

ABCTG

Thanks for all your help the last couple days ABCTG.

Regards,
Rockford

ilu007 · (login for full post details)

treydog999

i double checked all sessions are the same and time zones.

The third pane is Volume Breakdown?

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