PIPone wrote:Hello everybody,

I would need your help to solve a problem I encountered when trying to extract the value of the buffer of this indicator by the ICuston function.

The problem is the following:
1)when I attach the indicator "Cycle KROUFR" to a graph the " data window" shows correctly one variable (with all values of the plotted line of interest). The values range is from 0 to 100.
2) I try to import into an EA these values by the ICustom function assigning the buffer number 0 and shift 1 as follow:
double Signal_Krouf_1 = iCustom(NULL, 0, "Cycle KROUFR", 12,24,50,false, 0, 1);

3) I print the output of the variable Signal_Krouf_1, but the rendering is only a series of 0 and 100 without any other value in the between.

4) No warning appears in the Empty4 diary

I am puzzling my mind if I am doing some mistake or this indicator has some problem into its buffer code.

Please could any coder help ?

fxdaytrader wrote:What do you want? The value of the graph (violet line)?
If yes, it should be the buffer 0, so the function call would be like that:

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iCustom(NULL,0,"Cycle KROUFR",FastMA,SlowMA,Crosses,false,0,barshift);

FastMA,SlowMA,Crosses are the variables you have to set, barshift is how many candles to look back, 0:current candle, 1:last candle, etc. pp.) ...

If you not sure what buffer to look at, a nice way is to edit the indicator and insert SetIndexLabel() for each buffer, e.g.:
under SetIndexBuffer(1, MCD);
set SetIndexLabel(1,"MCD");

then when hovering with the mouse about the values, it shows you the label name,

fxdaytrader wrote:i do not know what you're doing wrong.
load that two indis (the one should be the same you have already) and theother one, it just writes a comment with the current and last bars value ...
on my Empty4 it works.

PIPone wrote:

fxdaytrader wrote:i do not know what you're doing wrong.
load that two indis (the one should be the same you have already) and theother one, it just writes a comment with the current and last bars value ...
on my Empty4 it works.

ok thank you fxdaytrader, your indicator work fine also on my Empty4 (see screenshot).
I have now a suspect that the problem is into the backtester of my Empty4: infact during the BT the values of the buffer_0 are anomaluos, but when I attach my buffer tester EA to the graph the buffer_0 values are showed correct.
I have Empty4 build 509 , I do not know how to solve this problem during BT, maybe a bug of Empty4?