Is it right that indicators can only work at ‘bar’ level, not at ‘tick’ level?

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Hi,

Is it right that indicators can only work at ‘bar’ level, not at ‘tick’ level?

thanks

 
Jose Luis Lominchar:

Hi,

Is it right that indicators can only work at ‘bar’ level, not at ‘tick’ level?

thanks

They can work at tick level in real time, but not historically.

 
Jose Luis Lominchar:

Hi,

Is it right that indicators can only work at ‘bar’ level, not at ‘tick’ level?

thanks

By default indicators' routine occurs on bars, but one can tweak an indicator to process each ticks.

 

Thank you both.

Icham, can you provide some detail on how that tweak could be done?

 
Jose Luis Lominchar:

Thank you both.

Icham, can you provide some detail on how that tweak could be done?

Yeah. Very simply.

int OnCalculate(const int rates_total,
                const int prev_calculated,
                const int begin,
                const double &price[])
  { <------ even if this occurs each ticks
//--- check for data
   if(rates_total<2*InpPeriodEMA-2)
      return(0);
//---
   int limit;
   if(prev_calculated==0)
      limit=0;
   else limit=prev_calculated-1;
//--- calculate EMA
   ExponentialMAOnBuffer(rates_total,prev_calculated,0,InpPeriodEMA,price,Ema);
//--- calculate EMA on EMA array
   ExponentialMAOnBuffer(rates_total,prev_calculated,InpPeriodEMA-1,InpPeriodEMA,Ema,EmaOfEma);
//--- calculate DEMA
   for(int i=limit;i<rates_total && !IsStopped();i++)
      DemaBuffer[i]=2*Ema[i]-EmaOfEma[i]; <---- each element of this array is a bar
//--- OnCalculate done. Return new prev_calculated.
   return(rates_total);
  }
 
Icham Aidibe:

Yeah. Very simply.

Its looks great! thank you very much!

 
Jose Luis Lominchar:

Its looks great! thank you very much!

You welcome. Keep in mind that ... 

Calculation based on data array

int  OnCalculate( 
   const int        rates_total,       // price[] array size 
   const int        prev_calculated,   // number of handled bars at the previous call 
   const int        begin,             // index number in the price[] array meaningful data starts from 
   const double&    price[]            // array of values for calculation 
   );

Calculations based on the current timeframe timeseries

int  OnCalculate( 
   const int        rates_total,       // size of input time series 
   const int        prev_calculated,   // number of handled bars at the previous call 
   const datetime&  time{},            // Time array 
   const double&    open[],            // Open array 
   const double&    high[],            // High array 
   const double&    low[],             // Low array 
   const double&    close[],           // Close array 
   const long&      tick_volume[],     // Tick Volume array 
   const long&      volume[],          // Real Volume array 
   const int&       spread[]           // Spread array 
   );

All these arrays are bars. So you have to gather ticks datas yourself.

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