What does MQLtick flag mean? - page 2

[Ehsan Tavakoli]

Jose Francisco Casado Fernandez:
TICK_FLAG_BUY or TICK_FLAG_SELL only appear on symbols with Times & Sales feature enabled (mostly stocks and futures). Try to select any MOEX's stock or DGCX's future at Market Watch on MetaQuotes-Demo and you'll see. Regards

We have separately sell & buy tick in " depth of market " .

I use this method for find difference between " buy deal "  and  " sell deal "

But i can't separate  

for( int i=size-1 ; i>=0 ; i-- )
      {
      
      
        Type = "" ;
        
 
        if( ( GTD.TickArray[i].flags & TICK_FLAG_ASK    ) == TICK_FLAG_ASK    )
          { 
            Type += "ASK"; 
          }   
        
        
        if( ( GTD.TickArray[i].flags & TICK_FLAG_BID    ) == TICK_FLAG_BID    )
          { 
            Type += "BID"; 
          }
     
     
        if( ( GTD.TickArray[i].flags & TICK_FLAG_BUY    ) == TICK_FLAG_BUY    )
          { 
            Type += "BUY"; 
          } 
      
      
        if( ( GTD.TickArray[i].flags & TICK_FLAG_LAST   ) == TICK_FLAG_LAST   )
          { 
            Type += "LAST"; 
          }
     
     
        if( ( GTD.TickArray[i].flags & TICK_FLAG_SELL   ) == TICK_FLAG_SELL   )
          { 
            Type += "SELL"; 
          } 
     
       
        if( ( GTD.TickArray[i].flags & TICK_FLAG_VOLUME ) == TICK_FLAG_VOLUME )
          { 
            Type += "VOLUME"; 
          }        

     
      
        Print( "Index " , i , " = " , GTD.DateSeries[i] , "   Flag = " , GTD.TickArray[i].flags , "   |   " , Type );
            
            
      }                       

 

I get Buy & Sell Deal by use " COPY_TICKS_TRADE " flag . But i can't specify & separate Buy deal From sell deal .

All flag is 24 . How i can distinction between buy deal from sell deal ?

Thank you . 

[Gustavo Enedir Hennemann]

Ehsan Tavakoli:

We have separately sell & buy tick in " depth of market " .

I use this method for find difference between " buy deal "  and  " sell deal "

But i can't separate  

 

I get Buy & Sell Deal by use " COPY_TICKS_TRADE " flag . But i can't specify & separate Buy deal From sell deal .

All flag is 24 . How i can distinction between buy deal from sell deal ?

Thank you . 

This post is a litle old, but...

You have to filter by flag 24, after that, if LAST==BUY then the tick is a buy deal, if the LAST==SELL then the tick is a sell deal.

[Arthur Albano]

nuclearping:

They are "flags", that means they are bitwise combined - or in other words: They contain more than one "option":

 

 To "decode" the info, you need to check by bitwise AND:

I never got "TICK_FLAG_BUY" or "TICK_FLAG_SELL" so far tho. Don't know what triggers them.

Try equities, derivatives, options and other futures.

[Keith Watford]

Comments that do not relate to this topic, have been moved to "Does anyone know if TICK_FLAG can have a larger value of 252?".