Below is the code for an indicator which will plot the wicks for Renko bars. It does not work historically, the wicks plotted for historical bars will either be zero/non-existant, or equal to the close of the previous bar.

It does however, plot live/forward making proper wicks for any bar created from live data.

Does anyone know how to create a numeric output from the truehigh and truelow values? I'm not very good at indicators yet, so I don't even know how the code specifies to plot on the bar chart, instead of making it's own/new section at the bottom.

I'd like to reference the truehigh (wick) and truelow (wick) values in number form to possibly craft some strategies. I realize they will not work in backtest, but I could run them forward for now.

Also, in the future, if there are some slick programmers here, we could possibly use a time based chart and reference bar time values to artificially recreate the wick values for historical/backtest purposes. I know TS will not backtest using a second data series, but I'm not sure if it may be possible to backtest using global dictionary or global variable values.

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Input: HighWickColor (Green);
Input: LowWickColor (Red);
var: IntraBarPersist True_High (0);
var: IntraBarPersist True_Low (0);
var: IntraBarPersist T_High_L (0);
var: IntraBarPersist T_Low_H (0);
var: Brick_Dir (0);

// BRICK DIRECTION
If BarStatus(1) = 2 then begin
If High > Open then Brick_Dir = 1;
If Low < Open then Brick_Dir = -1;
End;
// TRACK THE BRICK HIGH AND THE BRICK LOW
If Brick_Dir = -1 then begin
If Close <= Open[1] and Close >= Open then begin T_High_L = Close; T_Low_H = Close; End;
If Close < Open then begin T_Low_H = Close; T_High_L = Open; End;
If Close > Open[1] then begin T_Low_H = Open[1]; T_High_L = Close; End;
End;
If Brick_Dir = 1 then begin
If Close >= Open[1] and Close <= Open then begin T_High_L = Close;T_Low_H = Close; End;
If Close > Open then begin T_High_L = Close; T_Low_H = Open; End;
If Close < Open[1] then begin T_High_L = Open[1]; T_Low_H = Close; End;
End;
// TRACK THE TRUE HIGH AND THE YRUE LOW
If True_High < High then True_High = High;
If True_Low > Low then True_Low = Low;

Plot1(True_High, "BarHigh",HighWickColor ,0,0);
Plot2(T_High_L , "BarLow ",HighWickColor ,0,0);
Plot3(T_Low_H , "BarHigh",LowWickColor ,0,0);
Plot4(True_Low , "BarLow ",LowWickColor ,0,0);

// RESET
If BarStatus(1) = 2 then begin
True_High = Close;
True_Low = Close;
T_High_L = Close;
T_Low_H = Close;
End;
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RM99 

Does anyone know how to create a numeric output from the truehigh and truelow values? I'm not very good at indicators yet, so I don't even know how the code specifies to plot on the bar chart, instead of making it's own/new section at the bottom. I'd like to reference the truehigh (wick) and truelow (wick) values in number form to possibly craft some strategies. I realize they will not work in backtest, but I could run them forward for now.

From within your indicator you can reference the true_high and true_low from bars in the past.
i.e. True_High[3] would get that value 3 bars ago. But, like you said, you can only do this for charts that have been built in real time. I use commentary a lot to manually reference historical data on a bar by bar basis. Try adding this to your indicator right before the plot. Then use the Analysis Commentary to show the values in a dialog box for a selected bar.

 

Code

#beginCmtry CommentaryCL("*************************************************"); CommentaryCL("True High: ", True_High); CommentaryCL("True Low: ",True_Low); CommentaryCL("*************************************************"); #End;

I hope this helps.

Regard,
-C

cbritton 

From within your indicator you can reference the true_high and true_low from bars in the past. i.e. True_High[3] would get that value 3 bars ago. But, like you said, you can only do this for charts that have been built in real time. I use commentary a lot to manually reference historical data on a bar by bar basis. Try adding this to your indicator right before the plot. Then use the Analysis Commentary to show the values in a dialog box for a selected bar.   Code #beginCmtry CommentaryCL("*************************************************"); CommentaryCL("True High: ", True_High); CommentaryCL("True Low: ",True_Low); CommentaryCL("*************************************************"); #End; I hope this helps. Regard, -C

This must be something TradeStation specific as I've never heard of it before I wonder if there is a MultiCharts equivalent?

Mike