Trendline Indicator Slowing Down MC

brunor · Postby **brunor** » 05 Jan 2022

Adding this trendline indicator slows down MC. Any ideas on correcting this?
Appreciate any feedback.
Thank You.

Input:
	L1(4800),
	StartDate(1220104),
	StartTime(900),
	EndTime(1600);
	
Value1 = tl_new(Startdate,StartTime,L1,StartDate,EndTime,L1);
tl_setstyle(Value1,1);
tl_setcolor(Value1,red);
Value6 = Text_New(StartDate,1600,L1,"L1");
text_setcolor(Value6,black);
text_setsize(Value6,8);
text_setbgcolor(Value6,white);
text_setborder(Value6,True);

TJ · Postby TJ » 05 Jan 2022

MultiCharts is a tick driven software.
Everytime a tick comes it, the indicator will recalculate itself, and updates the variables and redraws the plots.

Trendline is different from Plots.
A new Plot will replace the old plot.

Your code as is, it draws a new line for every new tick that came in.
If you use your mouse to move the trendline, you will find another one underneath it, and so one.

To avoid this repeated drawing of trendlines,
you should put your logic within a condition.

brunor · Postby **brunor** » 06 Jan 2022

I am grateful for your reply TJ.
I'll add a condition as suggested ... now that I have a better understanding of Trendline vs. Plot.

Thank You.
Bruno

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