Hello

I want to get the range of the bars in at a certain time. Let's say I want the range from 9-10.30. This was my first try, but obviously it doesn't give me the range of the bars as it's only looking at the 9 & 10.30 bars (and not the ones in between).

 

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if (Time = 0900) then begin storedOpen9 = low; storedClose9 = high; end; if (Time = 1030) then begin storedOpen1030 = low; storedClose1030 = high; end; rangeLow = MinList(MinList(storedOpen9, storedClose9), MinList(storedOpen1030, storedClose1030)); rangeHigh = MaxList(MaxList(storedOpen9, storedClose9), MaxList(storedOpen1030, storedClose1030)); range = rangeHigh - rangeLow;

Another idea I had was to use 2 different timeframes, one where I use 90mins bars for getting the range (high-low) and one for trading. But I don't know how to do this nor if this is the appropriate way.

I am very new to EasyLanguage & Multicharts and tried searching for this but didn't find anything.

Thanks in advance!

kristian 

I want to get the range of the bars in at a certain time. Let's say I want the range from 9-10.30. This was my first try, but obviously it doesn't give me the range of the bars as it's only looking at the 9 & 10.30 bars (and not the ones in between).

I would try to do this as follows:

 

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Variables: barRange(0), highestRange(0), lowestRange(9999); // Get the range of bars during a certain time if (Time >= 900) and (Time <= 1030) then begin barRange = High - Low; highestRange = MaxList(barRange, highestRange); lowestRange = MinList(barRange, lowestRange); end; // Reset the variables after this time ends if (Time > 1030) then begin highestRange = 0; lowestRange = 99999; end;

Of course, you'd still need to implement here what you want to do with the `highestRange` and `lowestRange` variables during the 9:00 - 10:30 time period. I hope this points you in the right direction.

Thank you very much Jura!

On the basis of your input I came up with the following:

 

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if (Time >= 0700) and (Time <= 0930) then begin highestHigh = MaxList(High, highestHigh); lowestLow = MinList(Low, lowestLow); range = highestHigh - lowestLow; end;

and I reset the range every day like this:

 

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if date <> date[1] then begin highestHigh = 0; lowestLow = 99999999; range = 0; end;