Ticks Countdown Issue With latest Beta

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Ticks Countdown Issue With latest Beta

Postby widgetman » 30 Jul 2007

Hi,
I decided to be brave and try the latest beta version of MC. After loading it and re-compiling my indicators I noticed that now even if I select Ticks Count instead of volume for the symbol I am using The script for counting ticks below always gives me volume count. It use to work in the previous version. Has anyone else seen this ?
Thanks


[LegacyColorValue = true];


//be sure you use "Tick Count" for volume
//works for both tick and share charts

input: AlertTicks(5), HOffset(1),
AlertText("tick"),AlertColor(magenta),
NonAlertColor(white);

vars: txt(-1),TicksLeft(0),color(0);

if BarType = 0 then
begin
//initiate the text variable
if BarNumber = 1 then
txt = text_new(date,time,close," ");

TicksLeft = BarInterval - ticks;

if OneAlert(TicksLeft <= AlertTicks) then
alert(NumToStr(TicksLeft,0)+"-"+AlertText+" alert");

//text color changes with alert
if TicksLeft > AlertTicks then
color = NonAlertColor
else
color = AlertColor;

//reset at each tick
text_SetLocation(txt,date,CalcTime(time,HOffset),close);
text_SetString(txt,NumToStr(TicksLeft,0)+" " + AlertText);
text_SetColor(txt,color);
end;

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Postby Andrew Kirillov » 31 Jul 2007

The problem has been confirmed. It will be fixed in the next release.

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Postby widgetman » 31 Jul 2007

Hi Andrew,
Thanks for taking a look at this issue. is there no way to fix it with a simpler patch ?
I hate to wait months for this feature to come back since anyone who uses tick charts knows the importance of knowing exactly when a bar is going to close.
Thanks

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Postby Andrew Kirillov » 31 Jul 2007

There is no need to wait for months since we will release Beta 4 in a couple of weeks.

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Postby widgetman » 31 Jul 2007

Thanks Andrew for the help and response.
ANy chance I can get you to filter out 0 price data from opentick feed as well when the market closes ?
Every day there is a spike to 0 for the low which messes up the database. If I edit the data amd mark all of them for deletion the next time I open MC and tell it to replace any missing data it loads the quotes back in.
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Postby Andrew Kirillov » 31 Jul 2007

Widgetman,
We tried to reproduce the problem, but failed.
Could you send us your workspaces?

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Postby widgetman » 31 Jul 2007

Hi Andrew,
My workspaces contain custom stuff I can not release. I did however extract a ASCII file containing the tick data from Opentick from 6/25 to 7/31
Inside this file if you search for 0.00000,0 you will see 62 instances of the case I am talking about. If you load the /YMU7 symbol from Opentick on the EC exchange and creat a tick chart with say 55 ticks and load 20+ days of tick data you will see quite a few instances where this will happen. When you scroll back thru the days and hit a case where the low shows 0 for the price the candles on the chart will compress into a flat line on your workspace. I hope this helps. This issue has been around for a long time.

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Postby widgetman » 31 Jul 2007

Sorry it did not attach my zip file for some reason. I will email it to you Andrew

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Postby widgetman » 03 Aug 2007

Hi Andrew,
I was wondering if you received my data file I sent you showing the 0 price data from Opentick on random tick prints. It has been a annoying issue for a while and I would like to see it get fixed. Is it possible to add a check box option that throws out any tick data which contains 0 for either OHLC ?
Please let us Opentick users know.
Thanks

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Postby Andrew Kirillov » 03 Aug 2007

Widgetman,
I didn't get your data file. Could you contact our helpdesk? Before I answer your question I need to understand the problem completely...


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