Renko Coding Question?

[ewinner]

Hi Everyone,

Im a long time trader of renko blocks and have been working on a strategy that involves 2 offline charts, a 5 pip renko block (M2 offline) and a 10 pip renko block (M3 offline).

I want to try and automate a strategy using values from both charts but having problems, my question is - if i place the EA on the 5 pip chart i can call in the values easily for that chart using '0' as the timeframe, but how do i get the values from the 10 pip block offline chart?

Ive tried changing the timeframe to, PERIOD_M3 (and define it at the top), but this does not work.

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void pip10()

{
pip10 = none;

if (iClose("EURUSD",PERIOD_M3,1) > iOpen("EURUSD",PERIOD_M3,1)) pip10 = up;
if (iClose("EURUSD",PERIOD_M3,1) < iOpen("EURUSD",PERIOD_M3,1)) pip10 = down;

}//void pip10()
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Ive searched Google, trawled the mql4 site but cannot find any similiar requests or code snippets to play with.

Sorry if this is blatantly obvious, i just cannot see it..

Thanks for any advice/help on this..

Mark

[gaheitman]

Hi Everyone,

Im a long time trader of renko blocks and have been working on a strategy that involves 2 offline charts, a 5 pip renko block (M2 offline) and a 10 pip renko block (M3 offline).

I want to try and automate a strategy using values from both charts but having problems, my question is - if i place the EA on the 5 pip chart i can call in the values easily for that chart using '0' as the timeframe, but how do i get the values from the 10 pip block offline chart?

Ive tried changing the timeframe to, PERIOD_M3 (and define it at the top), but this does not work.

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void pip10()

{
pip10 = none;

if (iClose("EURUSD",PERIOD_M3,1) > iOpen("EURUSD",PERIOD_M3,1)) pip10 = up;
if (iClose("EURUSD",PERIOD_M3,1) < iOpen("EURUSD",PERIOD_M3,1)) pip10 = down;

}//void pip10()
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Ive searched Google, trawled the mql4 site but cannot find any similiar requests or code snippets to play with.

Sorry if this is blatantly obvious, i just cannot see it..

Thanks for any advice/help on this..

Mark

According to the fratelli thread (http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... lose#p1662) what you are trying to do should work. The only thing I see is that they are using NULL instead of the currency name. Are you creating the M2 and M3 offline charts in the correct directory?

George

[ewinner]

Hi George,

Thanks for your reply and link, i hadnt seen that thread

Just changed the code to below which solved the problem perfectly

Great stuff, learning everyday.. thanks again

Mark

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void pip10()

{
pip10 = none;

if (iClose(NULL,3,1) > iOpen(NULL,3,1)) pip10 = up;
if (iClose(NULL,3,1) < iOpen(NULL,3,1)) pip10 = down;

}//void pip10()
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