Is it possible to display bar index on the chart?

Is it possible to display bar index on the chart?

Obuli Govindaraju
2011-10-21 22:53:46

I am doing some testing and would like to see bar index numbers appear above a candlestick in a chart.

Is it possible to do something like this?

Thanks.

QuantShare
2011-10-22 05:15:26

Best Answer

Yes it is possible. Please look at the following how-to article:
http://www.quantshare.com/how-343-how-to-display-the-bar-index-of-a-stock-on-a-chart

Obuli Govindaraju
2011-10-22 11:12:44

Great! Thanks for the link.

However from my understanding so far it looks like the cFunctions.High indexes the bar from right to left with 0 meaning the last bar and 1 meaning yesterday's bar and so on.

Whereas ChartData.GetTimeSeries("high") indexes the bar from left to right with 0 meaning the first bar on the chart and the last index is today's bar.

Is my observation correct? If so is there a reason why it indexes differently?

Thanks.

QuantShare
2011-10-24 04:33:23

"cFunctions.High" and "ChartData.GetTimeSeries" uses the same logic. They both indexes the bar from left to right.

The only function that indexes the bar from right to left where 0 means the current bar and 1 the bar before is the "GetTimeSeries" of the money management script.
This is because this script is executed on each trading day during a simulation.

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