Dear Support,

I'm going to write an indicator to paint my own customized candlesticks on the jforex chart based on the CustomCandleIndicator as example. I need to calculate my own Open, Close, Low, High (an IBar object) based on an algorithm from both Offerside.ASK and Offerside.BID IBar objects. The problem is that the CustomCandleIndicator works with either OfferSide.ASK or OfferSide.BID IBar objects only.

Question: how can I get both the Offerside.ASK and Offerside.BID IBar objects in the drawOutput method of CustomCandleIndicator at the same time ? The InputParameterInfo method offers only one option for the OfferSide settings.

Any example available? if not possible, any workaround?

Thanks in advance!

You simply need to add an additional input that would use the needed offer side, see:
https://www.dukascopy.com/wiki/#Indicator_with_multiple_inputs

Dear Support,

I modified the CustomCandleIndicator's calculate method by adding both ASK and BID inputs to it, but no candles are shown on the screen now, it seems the method hangs somewhere..

could you please have a look at it? (see the attachment.)

For us the indicator does work - it draws candles on chart but after a couple seconds. If you could elaborate on your algorithm maybe we could suggest you how to go about implementing it. Another example which draws custom candles is HeikenAshiIndicator, SentimentIndexBar indicator draws its bars on a separate panel.

Dear Support,

Thanks a lot for your kindness in helping me! It works indeed now I would have still two questions to you if possible:

1. Is there any special function available to color the body of the candles(like g.fillRect) within the drawCandle method ?

2. Would it be possible somehow to draw candles of 200 Tickbars each with this modified indicator? I know that Jforex is currently limited to 100 Tickbars, but I would like to take out this limitation with an indicator.

Thanks again !

You can have a look at how HeikenAshiIndicator and SentimentIndexBar go about the rectangle filling.
If you wish to construct your own tick bars then you would need to work with the IHistory methods, because indicators don't work with tick feed - when you select tick feed they actually calculate over 1-sec bars.

One more issue: If I put the mouse on my custom candles the original candlesticks in the background are being highlighted as shown in the screenshot attached, this results in a mess....

How can I get rid of the original jforex candlesticks completely? For the time being they are not visible in the background until I put the mouse on them.

Thanks in advance.

It is not the original candles, but rather the handles of the indicator's candles. Simply don't put any values to the handles map and there will not be any "highlightings".