Help with simple custom indicator

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Hi, I'm simply trying to create a custom indicator that produces the simple quotient of (current bid / current triple exponential moving average figure).

Any help on making this functional would be most appreciated. Thanks for your time...


//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

//| CIND.mq4 |
//| John Reynolds |
//+--------------------------------------- ---------------------------+
#property copyright "John Reynolds"

#property indicator_separate_window
#property indicator_minimum 0.985
#property indicator_maximum 1.015
#property indicator_buffers 1
#property indicator_color1 Orange

extern int EMA_period=14;

double CIND[];
double Ema[];
double EmaOfEma[];
double EmaOfEmaOfEma[];
double Tema[];

int init()
{

SetIndexBuffer(0,CIND);
SetIndexBuffer(1,Ema);
SetIndexBuffer(2,EmaOfEma);
SetIndexBuffer(3,EmaOfEmaOfEma);
SetIndexBuffer(4,Tema);

SetIndexStyle(0,DRAW_LINE);
SetIndexLabel(0,"CIND");

return(0);
}


int start()
{

int i,limit,limit2,limit3,counted_bars=IndicatorCounted();
double Price = Bid;

if (counted_bars==0)
{
limit=Bars-1;
limit2=limit-EMA_period;
limit3=limit2-EMA_period;
}
if (counted_bars>0)
{
limit=Bars-counted_bars-1;
limit2=limit;
limit3=limit2;
}
for (i=limit;i>=0;i--) Ema[i]=iMA(NULL,0,EMA_period,0,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE,i);
for (i=limit2;i>=0;i--) EmaOfEma[i]=iMAOnArray(Ema,0,EMA_period,0,MODE_EMA,i);
for (i=limit3;i>=0;i--) EmaOfEmaOfEma[i]=iMAOnArray(EmaOfEma,0,EMA_period,0,MODE_EMA,i);
for (i=limit3;i>=0;i--) Tema[i]=3*Ema[i]-3*EmaOfEma[i]+EmaOfEmaOfEma[i];

CIND[i] = (Price/Tema[i]);

return(0);

}
 

I haven't gone into this in depth, but the first problem I see is that you have not initialised enough buffers.

Try using this in your init function before the SetIndexBuffer commands :-

IndicatorBuffers(5);

I am not sure if that will fix the problem but I think it is a start.

 
 

Pardon my not using the SRC button, this was my first post on the forums.


kenny, I did add the IndicatorBuffers(5); but still can't seem to produce a functional line of that quotient on the graph.


Here is the updated code...


//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| CIND.mq4 |
//| John Reynolds |
//+--------------------------------------- ---------------------------+
#property copyright "John Reynolds"

#property indicator_separate_window
#property indicator_minimum 0.985
#property indicator_maximum 1.015
#property indicator_buffers 1
#property indicator_color1 Orange

extern int EMA_period=14;

double CIND[];
double Ema[];
double EmaOfEma[];
double EmaOfEmaOfEma[];
double Tema[];

int init()
{

IndicatorBuffers(5);

SetIndexBuffer(0,CIND);
SetIndexBuffer(1,Ema);
SetIndexBuffer(2,EmaOfEma);
SetIndexBuffer(3,EmaOfEmaOfEma);
SetIndexBuffer(4,Tema);

SetIndexStyle(0,DRAW_LINE);
SetIndexLabel(0,"CIND");

return(0);
}


int start()
{

int i,limit,limit2,limit3,counted_bars=IndicatorCounted();
double Price = Bid;

if (counted_bars==0)
{
limit=Bars-1;
limit2=limit-EMA_period;
limit3=limit2-EMA_period;
}
if (counted_bars>0)
{
limit=Bars-counted_bars-1;
limit2=limit;
limit3=limit2;
}
for (i=limit;i>=0;i--) Ema[i]=iMA(NULL,0,EMA_period,0,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE,i);
for (i=limit2;i>=0;i--) EmaOfEma[i]=iMAOnArray(Ema,0,EMA_period,0,MODE_EMA,i);
for (i=limit3;i>=0;i--) EmaOfEmaOfEma[i]=iMAOnArray(EmaOfEma,0,EMA_period,0,MODE_EMA,i);
for (i=limit3;i>=0;i--) Tema[i]=3*Ema[i]-3*EmaOfEma[i]+EmaOfEmaOfEma[i];

CIND[i] = (Price/Tema[i]);

return(0);

}


Essentially all the code within int start() is the code for the Triple Exponential Moving Average. After producing that figure, I believe the problem to be taking that figure and placing it in a quotient below the current bid price - I attempted to do this with the CIND[i] = (Price/Tema[i]) function.


Again, any further help would be most appreciated, thanks...

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