Plotting an Indicator beyond the current date/time.

[Freefox]

Is it possible to create an inidcator that plots a projection into the future for the bext x bars.

For example, take a simple indicator that plots as a line on the screen. I want to be able to project it into the future beyond the last bar zero. I need to do this as I have a predictive algorithm that calculates where the price will be in x bars beyond the current one and ideally I would like to project that onto the screen.

Any ideas anybody?

[Ray]

Use SetIndexShift()

Calculate the current and past bars taking the shift into account so the old values line up with the chart properly.

#property indicator_chart_window
#property indicator_buffers 1
#property indicator_color1 Red
//---- buffers
double ma[];


// Plot 5 period simple moving average 50 bars into future
int init()
  {
   SetIndexStyle(0,DRAW_LINE, 0, 2);
   SetIndexBuffer(0,ma);
   SetIndexShift(0, 50);
   return(0);
  }
int deinit(){return(0);}
int start(){
 for(int i = 500; i >= 0; i--){
  ma[i+50] = iMA(Symbol(), 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, i);
 }
 // example future calculation
 double slope = MathAbs((ma[50]- ma[51])/Point);
 int futureCount = 1;
 for(i = 49; i >= 0; i--){
  if(ma[51] < ma[50]) ma[i] = ma[50]+(MathPow(futureCount*slope, 1.618)*Point);
  if(ma[51] > ma[50]) ma[i] = ma[50]-(MathPow(futureCount*slope, 1.618)*Point);
  futureCount++;
 }
   return(0);
}

[Freefox]

That's great. Thanks.