Chart lines

[cristopher]

Hello. I find it annoying that my chart lines are placed at random levels. For example, my grid has lines on eur/usd (daily) at 12656; 12800; 130840 and so on. Those are random levels. Much, much more useful would be levels from one hundred pips, like 12800, 12900, 13000. Hpow can i have lines at those numbers and not random?

 

Many thanks :)

 

Cheers 

[Simon Gniadkowski]

Cristopher:

Hello. I find it annoying that my chart lines are placed at random levels. For example, my grid has lines on eur/usd (daily) at 12656; 12800; 130840 and so on. Those are random levels. Much, much more useful would be levels from one hundred pips, like 12800, 12900, 13000. Hpow can i have lines at those numbers and not random?

Create an Indicator to draw the lines where you need them and turn off the Grid.

[cristopher]

Just joined MT4 as trading platform. Afraid i can't make indicators for myself. I was taught to make money, not lines :)) 

 

Now, seriously, did anybody already do it? 

[Simon Gniadkowski]

Cristopher:

Just joined MT4 as trading platform. Afraid i can't make indicators for myself. I was taught to make money, not lines :)) 

 

Now, seriously, did anybody already do it? 

Where have you looked ?

[William Roeder]

Cristopher: Now, seriously, did anybody already do it? 

there are no slaves here, do your own research.

[MisterDog]

Here's something I'd use to solve that problem. The good people at this forum have helped me develop some of this code. Rectangles are 10 pips each. 

And here's a good long thread on the subject, https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/140093  

 

 

 

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//|                                                   Tens Lines.mq4 |
//|                                                       Scott Gaul |
//|                                                    ScottGaul.com |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
#property copyright "Scott Gaul"
#property indicator_chart_window

double multLimitStop = 1.615;
int nLines = 500;              // Number of total rectangles to draw ( Blue )
datetime CurrentTime;

// http://colorschemedesigner.com/#0142dnChx00vy
//GetTickCount
// ===== deinitialization function ==================================
int deinit()
{
   ObjectDelete("VertLine1");
   ObjectDelete("VertLine2");
   ObjectDelete("VertLine3");
   ObjectDelete("VertLine4");
   ObjectDelete("VertLine5");
   for (int ixd = 0; ixd < nLines; ixd++) // Loop span number of times
   {
      ObjectDelete("tensRec"+ixd);
   }
   ObjectDelete("fenceHigh");
   ObjectDelete("fenceLow");
   ObjectDelete("aveBarInfo");
   return(0);
}

// ===== start function =============================================
int start()
{
// ----- vert lines on the 24s --------------------------------------
   int oneDay = 1440 / Period(); // for different periods
   int inc=1;
   while(inc <= 5) // draw 3 vertlines
   {
      ObjectCreate("VertLine"+inc, OBJ_VLINE, 0, Time[oneDay*inc], Bid); // draw ix hr vert line
      ObjectSet("VertLine"+inc, OBJPROP_TIME1, Time[oneDay*inc]);
      ObjectSet("VertLine"+inc, OBJPROP_COLOR, 0x404040);
      ObjectSet("VertLine"+inc, OBJPROP_BACK, true);
      inc++;
   }
// ----- draw rectangles on the 10s - only once per new bar ---------
   if (CurrentTime != Time[0])
   {
      CurrentTime = Time[0];
      double lineInterval = 0.0020;                   // interval between rectangles
      double normPrice = NormalizeDouble(Close[1],3); // Current price is rounded to 10's - "x.xxx00"
      datetime timeGap = (Time[0] - Time[1]);         // find time from one bar to the next
      for (int ix = 0; ix < nLines; ix++)             // Loop span number of times
      {
         ObjectCreate("tensRec"+ix, OBJ_RECTANGLE, 0, Bars, normPrice+((ix-(nLines/2))*lineInterval), Time[0], normPrice+((ix-(nLines/2))*lineInterval+0.0010));  // Place half above and half below the current price
         ObjectSet("tensRec"+ix,OBJPROP_TIME2,Time[0] + (timeGap*500)); // keep the rectangle stretching off screen right
         ObjectSet("tensRec"+ix,OBJPROP_COLOR,0x101010);                // Make the rectangles look better
      }
   } // end of if
   return(0); //All done
} // ===== end of start =============================================