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Help with Date format

Postby arnie » 12 Jun 2009

Hi.

Let's see if someone can help me here with the following formula since rarely we see formulas being discussed here :?


My problem with it is drawing the trendlines from the beginning to the end of the selected input days.

How can I tranform the SessHi and SessLo variables into recognizable Date format, assuming that this is the only problem


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Inputs:
StDay (21),
StMnth (11),
StYear (108),
EnDay (28),
EnMnth (11),
EnYear (108),
PlotLines (True);

Variables:
SessST (true),
SessEN (true),
Hi (-999999),
Lo (+999999),
SessHi (0),
SessLo (0),
HiTL (-1),
LoTL (-1);

// Start time period
SessST = Year(Date) > StYear
or (Year(Date) = StYear and (Month(Date) > StMnth
or Month(Date) = StMnth and DayOfMonth(Date) >= StDay));

// End time period
SessEN = Year(Date) < EnYear
or (Year(Date) = EnYear and (Month(Date) < EnMnth
or Month(Date) = EnMnth and DayOfMonth(Date) <= EnDay));

// Highest High and Lowest Low inside time period
if SessST and SessEN then begin
If High > Hi then
Hi = High;
If Low < Lo then
Lo = Low;
SessHi = Hi;
SessLo = Lo;

// Plot TrendLines
if PlotLines = false then begin
HiTL = TL_New(date, Time, SessHi, Date, Time, SessHi);
LoTL = TL_New(date, Time, SessLo, Date, Time, SessLo);
end;

if PlotLines = false then begin
TL_SetBegin(HiTL, date, Time, SessHi);
TL_SetEnd(HiTL, Date, Time, SessHi);
TL_SetBegin(LoTL, date, Time, SessLo);
TL_SetEnd(LoTL, Date, Time, SessLo);
end;

end;



if PlotLines = true then begin
if SessHi <> 0 then
Plot1(SessHi);
if SessLo <> 0 then
Plot2(SessLo);
end;

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Postby gregorio123456 » 13 Jun 2009

well I don´t try you code but where you get value of SessHi and SessLo you put one line..... dateSessHi=date;timeSessHi=time;==> you have date and time of SessHi

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Re: Help with formula

Postby TJ » 14 Jun 2009

Hi.

Let's see if someone can help me here with the following formula since rarely we see formulas being discussed here :?


My problem with it is drawing the trendlines from the beginning to the end of the selected input days.

can you post a mock up chart with arrows pointing to where you want your trendline and notes on how its done?

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Postby arnie » 15 Jun 2009

OK.

See the images attached.

During the weekend I've been trying gregorio's way but with no success.
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Postby SUPER » 15 Jun 2009

arnie,

I am not sure if you want to plot line from the end date, but this may plot lines similar to what you are looking for.

The last bit of your code will be written as follows:

if SessEN=false and PlotLines = true then begin
if SessHi <> 0 then
Plot1(SessHi);
if SessLo <> 0 then
Plot2(SessLo);
end;

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Postby TJ » 15 Jun 2009

simplify your input

change from

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Inputs:
StDay (21),
StMnth (11),
StYear (108),
to

Inputs:
StDate (1081121),


then your code can be:

if PlotLines = false then begin
TL_SetBegin(HiTL, stdate, Time, SessHi);


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Postby TJ » 15 Jun 2009

or a more intuitive way of entering date:

input:
start.date(20081121);

var:
stdate(0);

stdate = start.date -19000000;




edit: corrected -19000000 order
sorry for the inconvenience.
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Postby SUPER » 15 Jun 2009

or a more intuitive way of entering date:

input:
start.date(20081121);

var:
stdate(0);

stdate = start.date -19000000;
TJ,

Thats very clever/interesting :idea: :wink:

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Postby 2haerim » 15 Jun 2009

Can you explain a bit more detail how this works?

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Postby gregorio123456 » 15 Jun 2009

Can you explain a bit more detail how this works?

HR
try this

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Inputs:
StDay (1081121),
// StMnth (11),
// StYear (108),
EnDay (1081228);
// EnMnth (11),
// EnYear (108);


Variables:
// SessST (true),
// SessEN (true),
Hi (-999999),
Lo (+999999),
SessHi (0),
SessLo (0),
HiTL (-1),
LoTL (-1),
PlotLines (True);
// Start time period
//SessST = Year(Date) > StYear
// or (Year(Date) = StYear and (Month(Date) > StMnth
// or Month(Date) = StMnth and DayOfMonth(Date) >= StDay));

// End time period
//SessEN = Year(Date) < EnYear
// or (Year(Date) = EnYear and (Month(Date) < EnMnth
// or Month(Date) = EnMnth and DayOfMonth(Date) <= EnDay));

// Highest High and Lowest Low inside time period
if StDay < date and EnDay>date then begin
If High > Hi then
Hi = High;
If Low < Lo then
Lo = Low;
SessHi = Hi;
SessLo = Lo;

// Plot TrendLines
if PlotLines = true then begin
HiTL = TL_New(StDay, Time, SessHi, Date, Time, SessHi);
LoTL = TL_New(StDay , Time, SessLo, Date, Time, SessLo);
plotlines=false;
end;

if PlotLines = false then begin
TL_SetBegin(HiTL, StDay , Time, SessHi);
TL_SetEnd(HiTL, date , Time, SessHi);
TL_SetBegin(LoTL, StDay , Time, SessLo);
TL_SetEnd(LoTL, date , Time, SessLo);
end;

end;



//if PlotLines = true then begin
// if SessHi <> 0 then
// Plot1(SessHi);
// if SessLo <> 0 then
// Plot2(SessLo);
//end;
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Postby RobotMan » 16 Jun 2009

Back before the turn of the century, back when my gran'pappy was still alive, back in the '80s. The 1980's. The Cruz brothers commissioned a small group of programmers to write a program called "SystemWriter". It was back in a time when phones had cords and email didn't have an "e" and was delivered to your house in small white envelopes called, well, envelopes.

No one thought much about the future because it was so far off. The only thing that mattered was right now, The Present. And right now, The Present always began with 19.
1980-Reagan as elected (yaa!), 1984-Apple Mac (wow, pricey), and 1987-Market Crash (lookout belowwwww). Who needs 20? We got 19 and that's all we will ever need.

But a long came the Y2k and elevators ceased to work, electricity went off in hospitals during surgery and ATMs zeroed out your accounts and planes fell from the sky. Remember? (10 years from now we will be looking back on Global Warming the same way).

"Time" for computers all started in the split second between 1899 and 1900. The month is known as "Month 00" and the day is known as "day 00" and the hour and minute is, well, you get the picture.

Computers also only had so many bits and bytes to play with so, everyone agreed time started, not at the big bang, but at 1900 and was represented as YYYMMDD past this magical demarcation.

Ie. Today is 20090616 (June, 16, 2009), but to Systemwriter, then Supercharts, then TS it would only look like:
20090616 - 19000000 = 1090616. Even to this day. The End.
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Postby arnie » 18 Jun 2009

I want to apologise to you all for my late reply :oops:

I've been busy on family affairs and my free time has been shortened.

Thank you for all the answers given.

I'll test them this weekend.

Regards,
Fernando

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Postby arnie » 19 Jun 2009

I've been testing the formula and I must say that TJ's way to input date is very "user friendly" :wink: Thanks for the tip

Gregorio, thanks for compiling it.

Just made 2 little modifications and now is 100% as I wanted.

Again, thank you all

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Inputs:
StDay (20090507),
EnDay (20090518);

Variables:
stDate (StDay - 19000000),
enDate (EnDay - 19000000),
Hi (-999999),
Lo (+999999),
SessHi (0),
SessLo (0),
HiTL (-1),
LoTL (-1),
PlotLines (True);


// Highest High and Lowest Low inside time period
If stDate <= date and enDate >= date then begin
If High > Hi then
Hi = High;
If Low < Lo then
Lo = Low;
SessHi = Hi;
SessLo = Lo;

// Plot TrendLines
if PlotLines = true then begin
HiTL = TL_New(stDate, Time, SessHi, Date, Time, SessHi);
LoTL = TL_New(stDate , Time, SessLo, Date, Time, SessLo);
plotlines=false;
end;

if PlotLines = false then begin
TL_SetBegin(HiTL, stDate , Time, SessHi);
TL_SetEnd(HiTL, currentdate , Time, SessHi);
TL_SetBegin(LoTL, stDate , Time, SessLo);
TL_SetEnd(LoTL, currentdate , Time, SessLo);
end;
end;


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Postby TJ » 19 Jun 2009

glad you like the tip...



but this is not done yet.
see you soon.

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Postby gregorio123456 » 20 Jun 2009

welcome :-)

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