Well I have attempted to make use of several custom indicators I spent many hours programming, believing that once the indicators were correct I could just "plug them in" to a strategy. Not even close however. Ibar history has serious issues. calling multiple time frames will confuse it for sure after a certain amount of time. Then it's garbage inputs to your strategy. Eventually the code below will not return the correct values as read from the indy on the chart. Getting the high from the indy is impossible for some reason even though it is one of the outputs!! Simply trying to calculate new highs on volume on 2 different time frames will run you into trouble. Soooo... for the newbies out there, get used to writing everything to a file from your indy and reading it from your strategy. It would be helpful if there were some global variables like MT4 so we could at least pass a variable reliably around the platform, be it strategy, indicator or plugin.
Support, is there such a thing in java for us?????
Thanks!
TBB
if (period.equals(Period.ONE_MIN)){
bestvolhighest1m = 0;
long bid1mtime = 0;
double bid1m = Double.NaN;
double ask1m = Double.NaN;
for (int count1m = 0; count1m < 1000; count1m++) {
try {
bid1mtime = history.getBar(instrument, Period.ONE_MIN, OfferSide.BID, count1m).getTime();
} catch (Exception e) { // Catch exception if any
console.getOut().print("history access eror in 1min: " + e.getMessage());
}
try {
bid1m = history.getBar(instrument, Period.ONE_MIN, OfferSide.BID, count1m).getVolume();
} catch (Exception e) { // Catch exception if any
console.getOut().print("history access eror in 1min: " + e.getMessage());
}
try {
ask1m = history.getBar(instrument, Period.ONE_MIN, OfferSide.ASK, count1m).getVolume();
} catch (Exception e) { // Catch exception if any
console.getOut().print("history access eror in 1min: " + e.getMessage());
}
//print("bid1mtime ="+sdf.format(bid1mtime)+" bid1m = "+bid1m+" ask1m = "+ask1m+" bestvolhighest1m = "+bestvolhighest1m);
if (bid1mtime != 0 && TimeHour(bid1mtime) < Starttime_cumulation /*&& TimeDay(inputs[0][i].getTime()) == TimeDay(inputs[0][inputs[0].length - 1].getTime()) && TimeMonth(inputs[0][i].getTime()) == TimeMonth(inputs[0][inputs[0].length - 1].getTime()) && TimeYear(inputs[0][i].getTime()) == TimeYear(inputs[0][inputs[0].length - 1].getTime()) */ ) {
//console.getOut().println("i = "+i+" time = "+TimeHour(inputs[0][i].getTime())+" reg time = "+inputs[0][i].getTime()+ " date = "+TimeDay(inputs[0][i].getTime())+ " current day = "+ TimeDay(inputs[0][inputs[0].length - 1].getTime()) );
//bestvolhighest1m = 0;
break;
}
if (bid1mtime != 0 && TimeHour(bid1mtime) > Starttime_cumulation /*&& TimeDay(inputs[0][i].getTime()) == TimeDay(inputs[0][inputs[0].length - 1].getTime()) && TimeMonth(inputs[0][i].getTime()) == TimeMonth(inputs[0][inputs[0].length - 1].getTime()) && TimeYear(inputs[0][i].getTime()) == TimeYear(inputs[0][inputs[0].length - 1].getTime()) */ ) {
//print("bid1mtime ="+sdf.format(bid1mtime)+" bid1m = "+bid1m+" ask1m = "+ask1m);
if ( bid1m + ask1m > bestvolhighest1m) {
bestvolhighest1m = bid1m + ask1m;
//print("bid1mtime ="+sdf.format(bid1mtime)+" bid1m = "+bid1m+" ask1m = "+ask1m+" bestvolhighest1m = "+bestvolhighest1m);
}
}
}
if (period.equals(Period.FIVE_MINS)){
IBar onebarago5m = null;
onebarago5m = history.getBar(instrument,Period.FIVE_MINS, OfferSide.BID, 1);
bestvolhighest5m = 0;long
bid5mtime = 0;
double bid5m = Double.NaN;
double ask5m = Double.NaN;
for (int count5m = 0; count5m < 200; count5m++) {
try {
bid5mtime = history.getBar(instrument, Period.FIVE_MINS, OfferSide.BID, count5m).getTime();
} catch (Exception e) { // Catch exception if any
console.getOut().print("history access eror in 1min: " + e.getMessage());
}
try {
bid5m = history.getBar(instrument, Period.FIVE_MINS, OfferSide.BID, count5m).getVolume();
} catch (Exception e) { // Catch exception if any
console.getOut().print("history access eror in 1min: " + e.getMessage());
}
try {
ask5m = history.getBar(instrument, Period.FIVE_MINS, OfferSide.ASK, count5m).getVolume();
} catch (Exception e) { // Catch exception if any
console.getOut().print("history access eror in 1min: " + e.getMessage());
}
//print("bid5mtime ="+sdf.format(bid5mtime)+" bid5m = "+bid5m+" ask5m = "+ask5m+" bestvolhighest5m = "+bestvolhighest5m);
if (bid5mtime != 0 && TimeHour(bid5mtime) < Starttime_cumulation /*&& TimeDay(inputs[0][i].getTime()) == TimeDay(inputs[0][inputs[0].length - 1].getTime()) && TimeMonth(inputs[0][i].getTime()) == TimeMonth(inputs[0][inputs[0].length - 1].getTime()) && TimeYear(inputs[0][i].getTime()) == TimeYear(inputs[0][inputs[0].length - 1].getTime()) */ ) {
//console.getOut().println("i = "+i+" time = "+TimeHour(inputs[0][i].getTime())+" reg time = "+inputs[0][i].getTime()+ " date = "+TimeDay(inputs[0][i].getTime())+ " current day = "+ TimeDay(inputs[0][inputs[0].length - 1].getTime()) );
//bestvolhighest5m = 0;
break;
}
if (bid5mtime != 0 && TimeHour(bid5mtime) > Starttime_cumulation /*&& TimeDay(inputs[0][i].getTime()) == TimeDay(inputs[0][inputs[0].length - 1].getTime()) && TimeMonth(inputs[0][i].getTime()) == TimeMonth(inputs[0][inputs[0].length - 1].getTime()) && TimeYear(inputs[0][i].getTime()) == TimeYear(inputs[0][inputs[0].length - 1].getTime()) */ ) {
//print("bid5mtime ="+sdf.format(bid5mtime)+" bid5m = "+bid5m+" ask5m = "+ask5m);
if ( bid5m + ask5m > bestvolhighest5m) {
bestvolhighest5m = bid5m + ask5m;
//print("bid5mtime ="+sdf.format(bid5mtime)+" bid5m = "+bid5m+" ask5m = "+ask5m+" bestvolhighest5m = "+bestvolhighest5m);
}
}
}
