Need some help referencing a value of a secondary Time Series....

October 20th, 2011, 11:41 AM

Howdy. I have been bashing my brains in trying to get this to work.

I simply want to create an indie that adds a secondary dataSeries to whatever chart the indie is added to. So say I have a 4r chart, I would like to add a secondary series in the indie of say 240 minutes, and plot the open of that 240min Data Series to the chart.

So what it would look like is shown in the picture below. Where each red line plotted is the Open of the new 4 hour bar that opens.

I have tried many things, I have tried to use the "Opens[0][0]" WITHIN the barsInProgress ==1. I have tried using a negative index in the barsinprogress==1.

This seems to be something simple that I am overlooking.

Also in the code, above I have added the the 240 minute dataSeries above.

Code

        protected override void OnBarUpdate()
        {	
			
			if (CurrentBars[0] <= BarsRequired || CurrentBars[1] <= BarsRequired )
        		return;

		
			if (secondaryOpen == null)
			{
				secondaryOpen = new DataSeries(SMA(BarsArray[1], 50));

			}
			
			// Executed on secondary bar updates only
			if (BarsInProgress == 1)
			{
				secondaryOpen.Set(Open[-1]);		//To Line bars up using -1 not 0?
				//return;
			}	
			
			// Executed on primary bar updates only
			if (BarsInProgress == 0)
			{
				
			}
			AnchorLine.Set(secondaryOpen[0]);

        }

October 20th, 2011, 12:07 PM

"
"Opens[0][0]" WITHIN the barsInProgress ==1
"
I hope that the "Opens" is a spelling mistake
Shouldn't be that "Close[0][0]"
Good Luck

October 20th, 2011, 12:09 PM

dlatbm

"
"Opens[0][0]" WITHIN the barsInProgress ==1
"
I hope that the "Opens" is a spelling mistake
Shouldn't be that "Close[0][0]"
Good Luck

Hehe, I thought that was an error the first time I saw it too.

That feature is HERE. There is also a Lows, Highs and Closes as well. I think its the 'preferred' method of reference when working with multi-timeframe series.

October 20th, 2011, 12:25 PM

spread indicator works with 2 series have you check it out?

October 20th, 2011, 12:38 PM

cory

spread indicator works with 2 series have you check it out?

I just tried this, tried using it on both the primary and secondary series on a chart, not sure what it does?

October 20th, 2011, 01:03 PM

I have something workable. It seems to be off by a tic or two in certain places though.

But what I did was create a simple indicator that does nothing but capture the Open/HIgh/Low values and stores them as an exposed dataSeries. Why I have to do this I don't understand as those values should be readily available?

But then from my main script, passed the secondary DataSeries I have added to that simple indicator mentioned above, and capture that open value and plot it on a chart.

ugh.