Candle closed not no new tick available yet

[Yashar Seyyedin]

Hello everyone.

Suppose a candle is closed and there has been no new tick in the new candle for a few seconds. What will be the result of calling OHLC of shift=0?

Will it return an empty value or the previous candle value?

[Lorentzos Roussos]

Yashar Seyyedin:

Hello everyone.

Suppose a candle is closed and there has been no new tick in the new candle for a few seconds. What will be the result of calling OHLC of shift=0?

Will it return an empty value or the previous candle value?

i think it will return the ohlc of the previous , so no new candle will form , need to test it though with custom ticks

[Lorentzos Roussos]

Yashar Seyyedin:

Hello everyone.

Suppose a candle is closed and there has been no new tick in the new candle for a few seconds. What will be the result of calling OHLC of shift=0?

Will it return an empty value or the previous candle value?

there are gaps yeah , it will return the old ohlc . Use this ea to detect them in history for examples:

#property version   "1.00"
//GREEN DINOSAUR GAP FINDER
/*
rules : 
the previous candle marks the date
gap bigger than period seconds
only between monday and thursday (no weekends)
*/


int OnInit()
  {
  EventSetMillisecondTimer(44);
  return(INIT_SUCCEEDED);
  }
void OnTimer(){
EventKillTimer();
while(!SymbolIsSynchronized(_Symbol)){
     Comment("Admiring the comet in the night sky , please wait...");
     ChartRedraw();
     Sleep(133);
     }
Print("Loaded");
int barz=iBars(_Symbol,_Period);
if(barz>0){
datetime prev_time=0;
for(int i=(barz-2);i>=0;i--){
  datetime time=iTime(_Symbol,_Period,i);
  if(prev_time>0){
    int distanseconds=(int)((long)time-(long)prev_time);
    if(distanseconds>PeriodSeconds(_Period)){
    ENUM_DAY_OF_WEEK day=dow(prev_time);
    if(day!=FRIDAY&&day!=SATURDAY&&day!=SUNDAY){
      Print("Gap found from "+TimeToString(prev_time,TIME_DATE|TIME_MINUTES|TIME_SECONDS)+" to "+TimeToString(time,TIME_DATE|TIME_MINUTES|TIME_SECONDS)+" "+EnumToString(day));
      }
    }
    }
  prev_time=time;
  }
}else{
Print("No bars");
}
Print("Trex out");
ExpertRemove();
}
void OnDeinit(const int reason){}
void OnTick(){}
ENUM_DAY_OF_WEEK dow(datetime _time){
MqlDateTime mqt;
if(TimeToStruct(_time,mqt)){
return((ENUM_DAY_OF_WEEK)mqt.day_of_week);
}
return(SATURDAY);
}

[Yashar Seyyedin]

Lorentzos Roussos #:

there are gaps yeah , it will return the old ohlc . Use this ea to detect them in history for examples:

Thanks. Much appreciated.