Bar size expert

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Hello experts,

I´ve been trying to develop my own expert but it is harder than I thought.

What I want is this:

I want the expert to calculate the average bar size of the last 15 periods, if the last bar is larger than the average and it is a bull bar then color it in blue, if it is a bear bar color it in red. The size of each bar is calculated measuring the high and the low of each bar, for instance, high: 1.2340 low: 1.2328, then the size of that bar would be 12 pips.

I believe programming this expert is easy, I am just not a good programmer.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

fx_trader 
 
Any ideas?

I appreciate your help
 
fx_trader wrote:
Any ideas?

I appreciate your help

As far as I know, it is difficult to change colors of bars or candlesticks.
Your calculations seem to be easy, but redrawing bars/candlesticks is a problem.
 
Hello JosTheelen,

Thank you very much for your response.

I see, and how about an arrow to indicate the cadndlestick is larger than the average?

Thank you again for your help.

Regards,

FX_trader 
 
fx_trader wrote:
Hello JosTheelen,

Thank you very much for your response.

I see, and how about an arrow to indicate the cadndlestick is larger than the average?

Thank you again for your help.

Regards,

FX_trader
 
Hello back

Anyone willing to help me?

fx_trader
 
fx_trader:
Hello back

Anyone willing to help me?

fx_trader
I will look at it these days. Is the last bar part of those 15 periods or just the 16'th?
 
JosTheelen wrote:
fx_trader wrote:
Hello back

Anyone willing to help me?

fx_trader
I will look at it these days. Is the last bar part of those 15 periods or just the 16'th?

No response??
 
Average of (High - Low) == Average(High)-Average(Low)
Thus, we having this simple indicator:

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//|                                                      BarSize.mq4 |
//|                      Copyright © 2007, MetaQuotes Software Corp. |
//|                                        https://www.metaquotes.net/ |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
#property copyright "Copyright © 2007, MetaQuotes Software Corp."
#property link      "https://www.metaquotes.net/"
 
#property indicator_chart_window
#property indicator_buffers 4
#property indicator_color1 Red
#property indicator_color2 Blue
#property indicator_color3 Red
#property indicator_color4 Blue
//---- input parameters
extern int       ParamPer=15;
//---- buffers
double ExtMapBuffer1[];
double ExtMapBuffer2[];
double ExtMapBuffer3[];
double ExtMapBuffer4[];
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Custom indicator initialization function                         |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int init()
  {
//---- indicators
   SetIndexStyle(0,DRAW_HISTOGRAM,STYLE_SOLID,3);
   SetIndexBuffer(0,ExtMapBuffer1);
   SetIndexStyle(1,DRAW_HISTOGRAM,STYLE_SOLID,3);
   SetIndexBuffer(1,ExtMapBuffer2);
   SetIndexStyle(2,DRAW_HISTOGRAM);
   SetIndexBuffer(2,ExtMapBuffer3);
   SetIndexStyle(3,DRAW_HISTOGRAM);
   SetIndexBuffer(3,ExtMapBuffer4);
//----
   return(0);
  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Custom indicator deinitialization function                       |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int deinit()
  {
//----
   
//----
   return(0);
  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Custom indicator iteration function                              |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int start()
  {
   int    counted_bars=IndicatorCounted();
//----
   int i,limit;
   double AvereageCandle;
   if (counted_bars==0) limit=Bars-ParamPer;
   if (counted_bars>0) limit=Bars-counted_bars;
   limit--;
   for (i=limit;i>=0;i--)
      {
      AvereageCandle=iMA(NULL,0,ParamPer,0,MODE_SMA,PRICE_HIGH,1)-iMA(NULL,0,ParamPer,0,MODE_SMA,PRICE_LOW,1);
      if (High[i]-Low[i]>AvereageCandle)
         {
         if (Close[i]>Open[i])
            {
            ExtMapBuffer1[i]=Open[i];
            ExtMapBuffer2[i]=Close[i];
            ExtMapBuffer3[i]=Low[i];
            ExtMapBuffer4[i]=High[i];
            }
         else
            {
            ExtMapBuffer1[i]=Open[i];
            ExtMapBuffer2[i]=Close[i];
            ExtMapBuffer3[i]=High[i];
            ExtMapBuffer4[i]=Low[i];
            }   
         }
      }
//----
   return(0);
  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

 
Thanks Rosh. I thought it was difficult to redraw those bars, but it seems easy to do.
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