Few questions regarding "Technical Indicator Functions"

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Hello.

I'm trying to experiment with expert advisers and indicators.

One main problem I'm having is not being able to use any technical indicator functions when running my script in real time.
When I use TIF ( "Technical Indicator Functions") on strategy tester then it works just fine and I get all the current and past data from buffers I need, but only way to get this data in "real time" is using "OnCalculate" entry point and do the number crunching myself.

Do I have some fundamental misunderstanding of TIF? Does one use them only in strategy testing, not real time trading?

 Another question I have is related to the same topic.
When I use any TIF (except iATR) my visual strategy table will show them on screen - and all of them will be in red color.
Any way of removing them or setting color/linestyle properties?

 

Thank you for any help on these topics. 

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Can you show some code ? So we can try to help you, there is no problem to use any "TIF" on chart ("real time").

About your second question, you can use a template, see documentation.

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