Hi,

I’m trying to code trend lines into easylanguage so they appear on the charts in TS2000i and am having problems.

It should (I think) in theory be super simple for someone who actually knows what they’re doing..so thought I’d ask for help and try to lose this headache

Basically I would like:

1. A line which connects the close of today (latest bar on chart) with the close of 21 days ago.
2. A line which connects the close of 21 days ago with the close of 42 days ago.
3. A horizontal line at the highest high of the past 21 days (it would go from today back 21 days)
4. A horizontal line at the lowest low of the past 21 days (it would also go from today back 21 days).

These lines would obviously then update automatically every time new data is entered & the chart updates.

Many many thanks for anyone willing to help me out!

All the best,
Tim

Hi Tim,

if you post the code that is giving you problems, I am sure someone here is able to steer you in the right direction.

In general I'd suggest to create the trendlines once and then just update their location. Getting the prices will depend a bit on the timeframe that you are working on, though.

Regards,

ABCTG

Thanks for the reply ABCTG.

To be honest I've never coded any trend lines and reading through the TS manual and searching google hasn't helped much, at least not for the types of (trend) lines I want coded... I'm stuck before I've started!

I can of course persevere and try to come up with something which resembles the code but thought I'd see if anyone could get me started more easily on this forum and save me a bunch of time.

Thanks again.

Cheers,
Tim

Tim,

the first thing to consider is the timeframe you are working on. If you are only using daily bars you can simply back reference the Open, High, Low and Close of a bar to get the values from X bars ago. In case you are working on intraday data, this won't work and you need to track the values from X days ago (using an array for example).

Regards,

ABCTG

HI ABCTG,

I'm just using daily bars. I'll try to keep searching and come up with something which resembles a workable code.

Thanks.

ABCTG 

Tim, the first thing to consider is the timeframe you are working on. If you are only using daily bars you can simply back reference the Open, High, Low and Close of a bar to get the values from X bars ago. In case you are working on intraday data, this won't work and you need to track the values from X days ago (using an array for example). Regards, ABCTG

Tim,

in that case you can access the values from previous day's easily by back referencing them - for example Close[10] would be the Close of the bar ten bars to the left of the current bar (Close[0] is the current bar).
Look into the functions "highest" and "lowest" to get the highest/lowest value within the last X bars.

For the trendlines I would suggest to create the four trendlines once at CurrentBar = 1 and then just update the trend line start and end points.

Regards,

ABCTG

ABCTG 

Tim, in that case you can access the values from previous day's easily by back referencing them - for example Close[10] would be the Close of the bar ten bars to the left of the current bar (Close[0] is the current bar). Look into the functions "highest" and "lowest" to get the highest/lowest value within the last X bars. For the trendlines I would suggest to create the four trendlines once at CurrentBar = 1 and then just update the trend line start and end points. Regards, ABCTG

Hi ABCTG,

I'm not sure how exactly...but I've managed to code it. It seems to all be working fine but obviously time will tell...

Many thanks for your help.

Regards,
Tim

Hi Tim,

you are welcome. Feel free to post your code here as it might help others or another pair of eyes might spot something.

Regards,

ABCTG