I've been stuck for days trying to figure out how to plot range bars (with highlighting, text bubbles, or any other means) over a regular time chart in ToS. The reason I want to do this is because the built-in ToS range bars are inconsistent with their aggregation periods (they use tick data for previous 7 days, then 1 minute data for a few days, then 1 hour data etc.). I'd like to have range bar code on, for example, a 1 minute chart, so I could have it consistent throughout the chart.

For example, could anyone write code that would define and plot whenever the price moves up or down $5.00?

Captain135 

I've been stuck for days trying to figure out how to plot range bars (with highlighting, text bubbles, or any other means) over a regular time chart in ToS. The reason I want to do this is because the built-in ToS range bars are inconsistent with their aggregation periods (they use tick data for previous 7 days, then 1 minute data for a few days, then 1 hour data etc.). I'd like to have range bar code on, for example, a 1 minute chart, so I could have it consistent throughout the chart. For example, could anyone write code that would define and plot whenever the price moves up or down $5.00?

Hi mate. Try this one

An indicator signal when the stock has updated its high/low.

 

Code

input marketOpen = 930; input marketClose = 1600; input intraDaySpan = {Default «SameDay» , «OverNight»}; def OpenCounter = SecondsFromTime(marketOpen); def CloseCounter = SecondsTillTime(marketClose); def MarketHours = if OpenCounter >= 0 and CloseCounter >= 0 then 1 else 0; def beforeMidnight = OpenCounter >= 0 and CloseCounter <= 0; def afterMidnight = OpenCounter <= 0 and CloseCounter >= 0; def Today ; def hideChartBubbles ; rec DailyHigh ; rec DailyLow ; switch (intraDaySpan) { case «SameDay»: Today = if GetDay() != GetDay()[1] then 1 else 0; DailyHigh = if Today then high else if MarketHours then if high > DailyHigh[1] then high else DailyHigh[1] else high; DailyLow = if Today then low else if MarketHours then if low < DailyLow[1] then low else DailyLow[1] else low; hideChartBubbles = MarketHours; case «OverNight»: Today = 0; DailyHigh = if Today then high else if beforeMidnight or afterMidnight then if high > DailyHigh[1] then high else DailyHigh[1] else high; DailyLow = if Today then low else if beforeMidnight or afterMidnight then if low < DailyLow[1] then low else DailyLow[1] else low; hideChartBubbles = beforeMidnight or afterMidnight; }; AddLabel(close > 0, Concat( «Dly High: » , DailyHigh), Color.GRAY); AddLabel(close > 0, Concat( «Dly Low: » , DailyLow), Color.GRAY); plot TodaysHigh = DailyHigh; plot TodaysLow = DailyLow; TodaysHigh.SetDefaultColor(Color.GREEN); TodaysLow.SetDefaultColor(Color.RED); AddChartBubble(DailyHigh > DailyHigh[1] and hideChartBubbles, DailyHigh, «Hi», color.GREEN, yes); AddChartBubble(DailyLow < DailyLow[1] and hideChartBubbles, DailyLow, «Lo», color.RED, no); Alert(DailyHigh > DailyHigh[1] and hideChartBubbles, «New High», Alert.BAR, Sound.RING); Alert(DailyLow < DailyLow[1] and hideChartBubbles, «New Low», Alert.BAR, Sound.RING);plot Data = close;

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Thanks for the reply Luke! I don't see any obvious way to re-tool that code from highs/lows to range bars.

is it possible to mark high/lows only after two and more bars not breaking high/low?