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How can I get rid of the connector lines in the Fractal Channel indicator?

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I'm using the Fractal Channel indicator written by Collector in my trading system. How can I get rid of the connector lines and show ONLY the support and resistance levels (ie. horizontal lines only) ? During back-testing, the current connector lines give away the price trend at the hard right-edge of the chart when you scroll bar-by-bar.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Cheers,
Enforcer

Here is an image taken from the Fractal Channel code base:



Here is the code:

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//|                                             Fractal Channel.mq4  |
//|                                 Copyright © 2005  Chris Battles  |
//|                                             cbattles@neo.rr.com  |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
#property copyright "Chris Battles"
#property link      "mailto:cbattles@neo.rr.com"
 
#property indicator_chart_window
#property indicator_buffers 2
#property indicator_color1 Red
#property indicator_color2 Blue
//---- buffers
double v1[];
double v2[];
//----
double val1;
double val2;
int i;
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//|                                                                  |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+  
int init()
  {
//---- drawing settings
   SetIndexArrow(0, 119);
   SetIndexArrow(1, 119);
//----  
   SetIndexStyle(0, DRAW_LINE, STYLE_SOLID, 2);
   SetIndexDrawBegin(0, i-1);
   SetIndexBuffer(0, v1);
   SetIndexLabel(0, "Resistance");  
//----
   SetIndexStyle(1, DRAW_LINE, STYLE_SOLID, 2);
   SetIndexDrawBegin(1, i-1);
   SetIndexBuffer(1, v2);
   SetIndexLabel(1, "Support");
//----
   return(0);
  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//|                                                                  |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int start()
  {
   i = Bars;
   while(i >= 0)
     {   
       val1 = iFractals(NULL, 0, MODE_UPPER, i);
       //----
       if(val1 > 0) 
           v1[i] = High[i];
       else
           v1[i] = v1[i+1]; 
       val2 = iFractals(NULL, 0, MODE_LOWER, i);
       //----
       if(val2 > 0) 
           v2[i] = Low[i];
       else
           v2[i] = v2[i+1];
       i--;
     }   
   return(0);
}
 
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
You might change index style to be DRAW_ARROW, and use SetIndexArrow with a good wingding code (154, perhaps?)
but I'm not sure that that solves your problem, though: when you see the right-most bar, it is already closed.
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