How to Create an ELD to Plot Vertical Lines or Arrows at Price.

[forrestang 10]

If I am marking my trades throughout the day, and would like to at the end of the day just put in a time into an ELD for buys and sells to plot either vertical lines, or arrows at the price for the current time.

 

How would I do this? I've created ELDs for plotting S/R levels, just using the plot function, and taking "inputs" as price levels.

 

But how would I accomplish what I am trying to do?

 

Thanks,

Forrest

 

P.S.: Here's the crappy, crude code I made a long time ago for plotting S/R levels, so I'm wanting to do something similiar, preferably with arrows instead of lines, but either will work.

 

Inputs: 
AnchorPivot1(0),
AnchorPivot2(0),
AnchorPivot3(0),
AnchorPivot4(0),
AnchorPivot5(0),
AnchorPivot6(0),
AnchorPivot7(0),
AnchorPivot8(0),
AnchorPivot9(0),
AnchorPivot10(0),
AnchorPivot11(0),
AnchorPivot12(0),
AnchorPivot13(0),
AnchorPivot14(0),
AnchorPivot15(0),
AnchorPivot16(0),
AnchorPivot17(0),
AnchorPivot18(0),
AnchorPivot19(0),
AnchorPivot20(0),
AnchorPivot21(0),
AnchorPivot22(0),
AnchorPivot23(0),
AnchorPivot24(0),
AnchorPivot25(0),
AnchorPivot26(0),
AnchorPivot27(0),
AnchorPivot28(0),
AnchorPivot29(0),
AnchorPivot30(0);

if AnchorPivot1 <> 0 then
plot1(AnchorPivot1, "AnchorPivot1");

if AnchorPivot2 <> 0 then
plot2(AnchorPivot2, "AnchorPivot2");

if AnchorPivot3 <> 0 then
plot3(AnchorPivot3, "AnchorPivot3");

if AnchorPivot4 <> 0 then
plot4(AnchorPivot4, "AnchorPivot4");

if AnchorPivot5 <> 0 then
plot5(AnchorPivot5, "AnchorPivot5");

if AnchorPivot6 <> 0 then
plot6(AnchorPivot6, "AnchorPivot6");

if AnchorPivot7 <> 0 then
plot7(AnchorPivot7, "AnchorPivot7");

if AnchorPivot8 <> 0 then
plot8(AnchorPivot8, "AnchorPivot8");

if AnchorPivot9 <> 0 then
plot9(AnchorPivot9, "AnchorPivot9");

if AnchorPivot10 <> 0 then
plot10(AnchorPivot10, "AnchorPivot10");

if AnchorPivot11 <> 0 then
plot11(AnchorPivot11, "AnchorPivot11");

if AnchorPivot12 <> 0 then
plot12(AnchorPivot12, "AnchorPivot12");

if AnchorPivot13 <> 0 then
plot13(AnchorPivot13, "AnchorPivot13");

if AnchorPivot14 <> 0 then
plot14(AnchorPivot14, "AnchorPivot14");

if AnchorPivot15 <> 0 then
plot15(AnchorPivot15, "AnchorPivot15");

if AnchorPivot16 <> 0 then
plot16(AnchorPivot16, "AnchorPivot16");

if AnchorPivot17 <> 0 then
plot17(AnchorPivot17, "AnchorPivot17");

if AnchorPivot18 <> 0 then
plot18(AnchorPivot18, "AnchorPivot18");

if AnchorPivot19 <> 0 then
plot19(AnchorPivot19, "AnchorPivot19");

if AnchorPivot20 <> 0 then
plot20(AnchorPivot20, "AnchorPivot20");

if AnchorPivot21 <> 0 then
plot21(AnchorPivot21, "AnchorPivot21");


if AnchorPivot22 <> 0 then
plot22(AnchorPivot22, "AnchorPivot22");

if AnchorPivot23 <> 0 then
plot23(AnchorPivot23, "AnchorPivot23");

if AnchorPivot24 <> 0 then
plot24(AnchorPivot24, "AnchorPivot24");

if AnchorPivot25 <> 0 then
plot25(AnchorPivot25, "AnchorPivot25");

if AnchorPivot26 <> 0 then
plot26(AnchorPivot26, "AnchorPivot26");

if AnchorPivot27 <> 0 then
plot27(AnchorPivot27, "AnchorPivot27");

if AnchorPivot28 <> 0 then
plot28(AnchorPivot28, "AnchorPivot28");

if AnchorPivot29 <> 0 then
plot29(AnchorPivot29, "AnchorPivot29");

if AnchorPivot30 <> 0 then
plot30(AnchorPivot30, "AnchorPivot30");

[forrestang 10]

I'm working on it. Someone sent me a link to this thread:

http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f56/arw_new-multicharts-5942.html

 

I shouldn't have been playing with this during trading hours, cause it plotted like a million arrows, and my MC locked up....eek.

 

Here's what I got so far:

Inputs: Date1(1090513), Time1(0);

Variables: Buy1(0);

Buy1 = Arw_New(Date1,Time1,Low,False);

[Tams 20]

Plot won't do it.

Unless all you want is a dot.

 

 

You need to use TL_New to draw lines.

 

 

here's the specification:

http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f56/trendline-easylanguage-5840.html

[Tams 20]

it would help if you can post a mock up of how you want the arrow/line to look like.

[forrestang 10]

it would help if you can post a mock up of how you want the arrow/line to look like.

 

Kewl, I will do that as soon as I get back in front of my PC with my software as I am temporarily out of town till Prob Sunday.

[forrestang 10]

it would help if you can post a mock up of how you want the arrow/line to look like.

 

Here's a pic of what it might look like with the arrow.

[Tams 20]

Here's a pic of what it might look like with the arrow.

 

 

[edit]

I have reworked the code.

pls see attached.

 

you don't have to input the date,

this code will draw the arrow on current day's chart.

 

 

you will need to input the time in 24hr format.

e.g.

 

10:00 am is 1000

 

1 pm is 1300

 

 

p.s. you have to enter the time in the chart's resolution time.

ie. if you have a 5 min chart, all the time entries must be rounded to 5 minute intervals.

 

I have added two more input:

arw.point.down

if you set the arw.point.down to true, the arrow will point down.

if you set the arw.point.down to false, the arrow will point up.

 

arw.size

i have set the default to 18.

 

 

.

arw_drawing_example.txt

Edited May 18, 2009 by Tams

[forrestang 10]

[edit]

I have reworked the code.

pls see attached.

 

you don't have to input the date,

this code will draw the arrow on current day's chart.

 

 

you will need to input the time in 24hr format.

e.g.

 

10:00 am is 1000

 

1 pm is 1300

 

 

p.s. you have to enter the time in the chart's resolution time.

ie. if you have a 5 min chart, all the time entries must be rounded to 5 minute intervals.

 

I have added two more input:

arw.point.down

if you set the arw.point.down to true, the arrow will point down.

if you set the arw.point.down to false, the arrow will point up.

 

arw.size

i have set the default to 18.

 

 

.

Tams, thanks for loooking into it.

 

I see, the part about the interval. I think that's why the first time I ran it, it plotted tons of arrows at the specified time. As it kept plotting one for every bar on my share bar chart.

 

What do you think about resolving that issue?

[Tams 20]

Tams, thanks for loooking into it.

I see, the part about the interval. I think that's why the first time I ran it, it plotted tons of arrows at the specified time. As it kept plotting one for every bar on my share bar chart.

 

What do you think about resolving that issue?

 

 

computers are dumb, you have to tell it specifically what to do... ;-)

otherwise it will repeat itself until... LOL... it dies.

 

 

the attached code should have solved the problem.

[forrestang 10]

Tams,

 

The prolblem with over plotting is still there.

 

I think that statement, needs an if around it, like 'if plot = true, then don't plot repeat arrrows for same time incriment'

[Tams 20]

Tams,

 

The prolblem with over plotting is still there.

 

I think that statement, needs an if around it, like 'if plot = true, then don't plot repeat arrrows for same time incriment'

 

 

are you plotting it at the EOD? or during market hours?

[forrestang 10]

are you plotting it at the EOD? or during market hours?

 

Mainly EOD, as this is just a tool I am using to go back and put arrows near trades I've taken. Just so I can look back and see what I was doing at that time.

[Tams 20]

Mainly EOD, as this is just a tool I am using to go back and put arrows near trades I've taken. Just so I can look back and see what I was doing at that time.

 

 

ok, let me ask the question in another way.

 

about the screen shot, was that indicator applied during market hours? or EOD.

Edited May 19, 2009 by Tams

[forrestang 10]

I applied it at EOD, I haven't tried it during mkt hours.

[Tams 20]

I applied it at EOD, I haven't tried it during mkt hours.

 

 

are you using the code I posted in this link?

http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f56/how-create-eld-plot-vertical-lines-5956.html#post65451

did you modify it in any way?

[forrestang 10]

are you using the code I posted in this link?

http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f56/how-create-eld-plot-vertical-lines-5956.html#post65451

did you modify it in any way?

 

I didn't. Actually, the study I had before, I just grabbed what you posted, erased what I had, and pasted it in there to see what would happen.

 

So it's got a different name is all. Compliled, and applied at EOD.

[Tams 20]

I didn't. Actually, the study I had before, I just grabbed what you posted, erased what I had, and pasted it in there to see what would happen.

 

So it's got a different name is all. Compliled, and applied at EOD.

 

 

you must have another indicator drawing those arrows.

 

right click on the arrow, you will see the name of the indicator drawing those arrow.

 

 

Good luck.