How to draw a horiz line? |
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Peter
BullCharts Staff Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 241 |
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Topic: How to draw a horiz line? Posted: 01 Mar 2005 at 10:53am |
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The horzline attribute only allows fixed numbers to be entered. (not
calculations). Therefore, to get around the problem, we just return the
calculation as a normal plot, but in such a way that it always returns
the same result and appears as a horizontal line. (this is how people
usually achieve horizontal lines in Metastock scripts).
Eg: {Fixed horizontal line} [horzline=20,80] {Calculated horizontal line) 5*10; {Calculated horizontal line based on price info } lastvalue( Low * 0.9) |
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kneighbour
Regular Joined: 12 Feb 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 57 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 28 Feb 2005 at 8:09pm | |||
The way I read the manual, this puts lines at (in this example) the 20% and 80% points. Presumable on an oscillator. For aprice chart would I use [horzline=1.23] (for a line at $1.23)
So this would be [horzline=3*5] ??
So this would be [horzline=lastvalue( Low * 0.9)] ??
This raises a good point - presumably this would fill the screen with horizontal lines? Can you alter the width of a line? |
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Peter
BullCharts Staff Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 241 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 28 Feb 2005 at 9:42am | |||
If you want to draw some fixed horizontal lines, use the horzline attribute. Eg: [horzline=20,80]
If you want to draw a calculated line, just make the calculation and return it as a result. Eg: 3*5; If you want to make the calculation based on current prices, etc, then use the lastvalue function. Eg: lastvalue( Low * 0.9); This will calculate the result for the last bar and return that result on every bar. |
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kneighbour
Regular Joined: 12 Feb 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 57 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 27 Feb 2005 at 1:40pm | |||
What i would like to do is draw a horizontal line at a calclated level. ie I want to draw a line at a set price (say $3.00) - how is this done?
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