indicator width depending on code

• 03/22/2023 at 10:10 PM #211951
  Swisspatrick

  I’m trying to code an indicator where the width depends on a condition. As a simply example use a pair of moving averages, e.g. MA20 and MA200.
  – if MA20 >MA200, I want the width of MA20 to be 2,
  – if MA20 < MA200, I want the width of MA20 to be 1.

  Problems:
  – RETURN MA20 COLOURED (255,0,0) style(line, 2) only accepts numbers, not code variables (e.g. style(line, x))

  I thought of a workaround of plotting an indicator 2x, once with width 1 and once with width 2 (if a condition is met with width 2, otherwise invisible),
  – but the transparency alpha in “colored by (r,g,b,alpha)” does not allow two different values.

  Any idea how this could be fixed?

  Thank you.

  

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  03/23/2023 at 9:54 AM #211975
  JC_Bywan

  Hello,

  ma20a=Average[20](close)// ma20 for width=1 ma20b=Average[20](close)// ma20 for width=2 ma200=Average[200](close) if ma20b>ma200 then // make visible case width=2 alpha=255 else // make invisible case width=1 alpha=0 endif return ma20a, ma20b coloured(0,0,0,alpha) style(line,2), ma200

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  ma20a=Average[20](close)// ma20 for width=1 ma20b=Average[20](close)// ma20 for width=2 ma200=Average[200](close)   if ma20b>ma200 then // make visible case width=2 alpha=255 else // make invisible case width=1 alpha=0 endif   return ma20a, ma20b coloured(0,0,0,alpha) style(line,2), ma200

   

   

  

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