Trying to create a study

Mickey Caine · (login for full post details)

I am new to Sierra, I have a very rudimentary knowledge of Easylanguage and a lot less of C++. I would like to create a very simple study. The EL code is

if High > Highest( High, Length )[1] then
begin
Plot1( High, "BrkoutHi" ) ;
Alert ;
end ;

Also, I did attend the webinar last night and asked whether candlestick wicks could be thicker, unfortunately the speaker, when answering increased the size of a bar chart. does anyone know if this can be done?

Any help on these questions would be appreciated.

Jolew · (login for full post details)

Take a look at the Donchian Channel study. i believe it does something very similar. You can add an alert to it if you want and select which graph you want to plot.

They actually did show the candlestick wick width increase. Global settings > graphic settings and change the width of Bar High-Low Up and Bar High-Low Down.

Mickey Caine · (login for full post details)

Thanks for that Jolew. Currently playing with the Dochian channel, fingers crossed. I did see what he did re the wicks. It does not seem tmake any difference to my existing charts. However when I created a new one it does. strange but true. Still I will persevere.

Thanks again

Mickey Caine · (login for full post details)

Dochian channel mirrors what I want so thanks for that. However, SG1 is the high side line, do you know what I should type into the condition box so that the alert will sound when price breaks that line. Have tried SG1>0 and also SG1>1 but toi no avail.

Cheers

Jolew · (login for full post details)

Try SG1>SG1[-1]

Mickey Caine · (login for full post details)

Thanks for your continued help.. Yes that does work, HOWEVER, it only sounds off on the close and I do not have that box checked. Any ideas? Also for the low side I presume it would be SG2<SG2[-1]

Jolew · (login for full post details)

Sorry. I hadn't looked at the study. I think you might have the displacement set to 1. If you set it to 0, then it should work.

You might also be able to use with displacement of 1 and use C > SG1

Mickey Caine · (login for full post details)

It only worked!!!!!!

Thanks. off to the pub to celbrate. I will set up the short version later

Your help is much appreciated

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

I have never looked at SC code. But am curious, what is "SG1" - other than a pretty good TV show

Mike

cory · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

I have never looked at SC code. But am curious, what is "SG1" - other than a pretty good TV show

Mike

an indicator can has many parms, SG1 = subgrapth 1 = first parm.
ps: should have said many outputs, SG1 = first output.

trendfriendpa · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

I have never looked at SC code. But am curious, what is "SG1" - other than a pretty good TV show

Mike

SG1 means subgraph 1 that is about the only thing I know when it comes to Sierra Chart other than sc. meaning sierra chart

Nicolas11 · (login for full post details)

@Big Mike,

Big Mike

I have never looked at SC code. But am curious, what is "SG1" - other than a pretty good TV show

In addition to the above answers, below please find a minimal code (17 lines) which plots... the close of each bar (in a sub-panel).

There is an unique plot (subgraph): SG1.

In the code, "SG1" does not appear as such, but is referred to as sc.Subgraph[0] (in bold).

Nicolas

Code

#include "sierrachart.h"

SCDLLName("Example DLL") 

SCSFExport scsf_Example(SCStudyGraphRef sc)
{
	if ( sc.SetDefaults ) {
		sc.GraphName = "Example";
		sc.FreeDLL = 1;
		sc.AutoLoop = 1;  
		sc.Subgraph[0].Name = "Copy of the price";
		sc.Subgraph[0].DrawStyle = DRAWSTYLE_LINE;
		return;
	}
	
	sc.Subgraph[0][sc.Index] = sc.Close[sc.Index];
}

trendfriendpa · (login for full post details)

I believe SG1 translates to SierraGraph1 (which is the main chart)

SG2 - is the first subgraph under the chart
SG3 - is the second subgraph under the chart

Nicolas11 · (login for full post details)

@trendfriendpa ,

I do not think so.
As explained above, SGn refers to the n-th plot on the chart.
It also documented there: Study/Chart Alerts And Scanning - Sierra Chart

Nicolas

jdrower · (login for full post details)

For Example:
With the indicator CCI
SG1 = CCI line (value determined by user)
SG3 = Line Value such as +100 (value determined by user)
SG4 = Line Value such as -100 (value determined by user)

If SG1 was above SG3 one bar ago (a.k.a [-1] ), and assuming the CCI sudy is ID1, then a cross-over of the CCI from above +100 (Line Value SG3) to below it on the current bar, can be written :

=and(ID1.SG1[-1]>ID1.SG3[-1],ID1.SG1[0]<ID1.SG3[0])

for an alert such as
auditory,
a colored bar (as in candlestick),
background color (behind candlestick),
arrow down etc.

To learn best about alerts, look at any offerings from Tom Gilb.

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