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Hi
I saw this and want it for MC. Does anyone have something similar. It is from CQG and looks super neat.
https://www.cqg.com/Docs/TradeFlow.pdf
thx
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I think that if you make a Range chart, then you'll only need an indicator that colours the bars depending on how many transactions were executed at the bid and the offer as a percentage of the total trades executed for that bar. So certainly not impossible or very hard to code, but I haven't done such a thing myself.
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I will give it a try, but my EL skills are still only empryonic
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As simple solution with Upticks/Downticks would be:
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input: BarWidth (8);
vars: BGColor (0);
Plot1 ( Low + (Upticks / Ticks)*Range,"+",green,green,BarWidth ); //Set to Barhigh
Plot2 ( Low,"+",green,green,BarWidth ); //Set to Barlow
plot3 ( High,"-",red,red,BarWidth ); //Set to Barhigh
Plot4 ( Low + (Upticks / Ticks)*Range,"-",red,red,BarWidth ); //Set to Barlow
//Midline
if Upticks / Ticks >=0.5 then BGColor = cyan else BGColor = magenta;
Plot5 (Low+Range/2,"Mid1",BGColor ,BGColor ,3 ); // Set to Right Tick
Plot6 (Low+Range/2,"Mid2",BGColor ,BGColor ,3 ); // Set to Left Tick
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Hi
This works great. However, I am trying to get a smoothed version of this. Below my attempt, simply averaging the individual plots. the links are from CQG website showing their smoothed (by 3 bars!?) version.
My question is hich plots would you smooth here, to get a similar result: All four like below, only one & four or only two & three etc??
My attempt, left out the midline here:
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input: BarWidth (8),Thickness (3), Smoothing(10);
vars: BGColor (0);
Plot1 ( average(Low + (Upticks / Ticks)*Range,smoothing), "+",green,green,BarWidth ); //Set to Barhigh
Plot2 ( average(Low,smoothing),"+",green,green,BarWidth ); //Set to Barlow
plot3 ( average(High,smoothing),"-",red,red,BarWidth ); //Set to Barhigh
Plot4 ( average(Low + (Upticks / Ticks)*Range,smoothing), "-",red,red,BarWidth ); //Set to Barlow
thx really appreciate it
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May you can try this ... not tested because have no real-time data for the moment and here.
Code
input : barwidth(6); // input for plotwidth of HL bars in indicator
input : smoothing(3); // average of bars to be calculated for upticks and downticks
var : var1(0); // variable for upticks
var : var2(0); // variable for downticks
var : var3(0); // variable of ratio of up- minus downticks compared to sum of upticks & downticks
var : var4(0); // average of ration for the last bares defined from smoothing
var : var5(0); // variable for range of current bar
var : var6(0); // variable for plot as a breakpoint for indicator plot (rounded to tick)
var1 = upticks;
var2 = downticks;
var3 = absvalue(upticks-downticks)/(upticks+downticks);
var4 = averagefc(var3, smoothing);
var5 = range;
if var1 > var2 then
var6 = low+(roundinst(range*var4)) else
var6 = high-(roundinst(range*var4));
plot1 (high, "h1", red, red, barwidth); // plotstyle Bar High
plot2 (var6, "l1"); // plotstyle Bar Low
plot3 (var6, "h2", green, green, barwidth); // plotstyle Bar High
plot4 (low, "l2"); // plotstyle Bar Low
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thx for the help...but..
the roundinst is not recognized. what is that ?
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