Adding indicator calls to my shell EA's

[zaguy]

Thank you Steve. Much appreciated.

[Bruster400]

Indicators store data in 'buffers'. There are 8 of them, numbered 0 to 7.

Drag "StepMA new 1.05" onto your chart and open the Data Window (ctrl + D). You see basic candle information that changes as you hover the mouse over different candles.

You also see three fields

• 2stepMA(x,x,x) where x represents the three most important input values.
• Value 2
• Value 3

These are the buffers that the indi uses to store its data. Buffer indexing starts at 0 so:

• 2stepMA(x,x,x) is buffer 0
• Value 2 is buffer 1
• Value 3 is buffer 2

I wonder what kind of cretin thought up a system that dimwitted. Hey ho.

Stumbled on this post while looking for something else and thought I might be able to add something. When I'm looking to see if I can make iCustom calls to an indicator I use the attached indi that I wrote that places calls to all the bufffers (if <10!) in the indicator being looked at and plots the values on the screen. It keeps posting the info up with each new bar so on a 1m chart you quickly get a picture of what is happening. I've found this to be a great help in working out what's going on - especially when some indicators seem to be able to avoid posting to the data window!

Just thought I'd share

[SteveHopwood]

Stumbled on this post while looking for something else and thought I might be able to add something. When I'm looking to see if I can make iCustom calls to an indicator I use the attached indi that I wrote that places calls to all the bufffers (if <10!) in the indicator being looked at and plots the values on the screen. It keeps posting the info up with each new bar so on a 1m chart you quickly get a picture of what is happening. I've found this to be a great help in working out what's going on - especially when some indicators seem to be able to avoid posting to the data window!

Just thought I'd share

Fantastic. Thanks. I have uploaded it to the relevant post and added a link for explanation to yours.