Displaying stop position

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Displaying stop position

Postby arjfca » 15 Feb 2011

Hello

I'm using a trailing stop that is moved under specific conditions only. Is it possible to have an arrow be placed to show the stop position over the graph in an active trading window?

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Re: Displaying stop position

Postby TJ » 15 Feb 2011

Hello

I'm using a trailing stop that is moved under specific conditions only. Is it possible to have an arrow be placed to show the stop position over the graph in an active trading window?

Martin
It is not a built-in thing...so you have to code it.
Look up ARW_NEW and ARW_SETLOCATION.


ps. it is a good idea for new feature.

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Re: Displaying stop position

Postby arjfca » 15 Feb 2011

TJ,

I owe you few beers now. :)

Many thanks.
- I will look to code it. If concluant, I will post the code

- I will post the idea over MC for a future improvement

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Re: Displaying stop position

Postby TJ » 15 Feb 2011

TJ,

I owe you few beers now. :)

...Martin
all I need is a smoked meat sandwich to go with it. ;-)>

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Re: Displaying stop position

Postby arjfca » 15 Feb 2011

If you live in Canada, I could manage to do that

https://secure1.securewebexchange.com/d ... order.html.
They don't ship outside Canada :)

Back to my interrogation, Is it possible to display, instead of an arrow, a special characters that will represent an arrow pointing on the side. A up or down arrow will not display the exact position.

I don't see any text or characters command like Alt 26 (→) or Alt 16 for (►). When using this alt combination, i get back Chinese characters.

Martin

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Re: Displaying stop position

Postby TJ » 15 Feb 2011

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Back to my interrogation, Is it possible to display, instead of an arrow, a special characters that will represent an arrow pointing on the side. A up or down arrow will not display the exact position.

I don't see any text or characters command like Alt 26 (→) or Alt 16 for (►). When using this alt combination, i get back Chinese characters.

Martin
you can plagiarize this code for your purpose:
http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums ... -6084.html


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