Plotting an Indicator beyond the current date/time.

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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?

 

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);
}
 
That's great. Thanks.
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