Multi timeframe – MTF indicators for ProRealTime

Nicolas · Wed, 27 May 2020 09:34:34 +0000

Happy news for a large number of traders and programmers! The long-awaited support for using indicators from other timeframes in the same indicator (aka MTF indicators) will finally be available soon in programming (in a future update to ProRealTime version 11). I am currently testing different combinations to study all that is possible and so far everything works as well as what we could have with MTF for automatic trading strategies via ProOrder / ProBacktest . The programming method remains the same as that already used for ProScreener or ProOrder. That is to say that we declare our TIMEFRAME, then we code below in an ordinary way. So you can combine as much timeframe as you want and do everything you’ve dreamed of so far (for those who dream of programming of course 😆 ) Simple example: timeframe(1 hour,updateonclose) up = BollingerUp[20](close) dn = BollingerDown[20](close) timeframe(15 minutes) tenkan = TenkanSen[9,26,52] return up,dn, tenkan coloured(0,150,200) style(line,2) In this simple example, we apply a 1-hour Bollinger Bands (updated once at each 1-hour bar close) and a 15-minutes TenkanSen (update once at each current timeframe bar closure). — As you can see, this leaves a lot of room for the imagination to program a lot of new things! Combined with the arrays, we can now say that a certain number of limits have been overcome with regard to programming under ProRealTime! I do not know yet when this functionality will be available to the public, but I will try to keep you informed. In the meantime if you have any questions or questions, I will try to answer them as soon as possible. I will probably post other more or less complex examples over time! 😉

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10/02/2020 at 10:30 AM #146164

Nicolas

Here is an example of an EMA 20 periods of the 1000 ticks chart applied on the 20 ticks chart:

timeframe(1000 ticks,updateonclose)
a = average[20,1]

return a

timeframe(1000 ticks,updateonclose)

a = average[20,1]

return a

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10/02/2020 at 12:30 PM #146187

Malend

Briljant, thanks Nicolas

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11/16/2020 at 9:39 AM #150619

1millionprofit

Hello, what does updateonclose parameters do exactly please ?

example :

timeframe(1 hour,updateonclose) used in a 15minutes chart and let’s say it is 11h22 o clock:

does that mean that for all 15mn candles inside the 1hour current candle (from 11h to 12h), test will use the 1h indicators values at the end of the 10h candle (closing at 11h) without actualising values for the current price (after 11h) ? or that the 1h indicators prices at current time (after 11h) will be refreshed at each 15mn candle close ?

thanks in advance

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11/16/2020 at 9:41 AM #150620

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1millionprofit wrote:

does that mean that for all 15mn candles inside the 1hour current candle (from 11h to 12h), test will use the 1h indicators values at the end of the 10h candle (closing at 11h) without actualising values for the current price (after 11h)

YES!

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12/04/2020 at 3:16 PM #152609

VIOT

~~Bonjour Nicolas,~~

~~(Suis nouveau et en surfant je vois le travail d’accompagnement / aide que vous assurez : impressive !! )~~

~~Mon projet de swing trader en herbe ! : pour voir clair, construire des backtests et des screeners, j’aimerais ;~~

sous le graph de prix en Daily, voire en 4H, mettre un histogr visuel de rappel de la tendance de l’UT supérieure (par ex W) proposée par PRT trend, en affichant tout simplement dans un 1^er temps la variable trend (W) : +1 = vert, -1 = rouge

~~Est-ce possible ? car je suis en train de galérer, ..~~

~~ou peut-être ne peut-on faire du MTF qu’uniquement en UT inférieures à celle du graph principal ?Merci de votre réponse~~

Hello Nicolas, (I’m new and while surfing I see the support / help you provide: impressive !!) My budding swing trader project! : to see clearly, to build backtests and screeners, I would like; under the price graph in Daily, or even in 4H, put a visual histogram of the trend of the upper UT (for example W) proposed by PRT trend, by simply displaying in a ^1st time the trend variable (W ): +1 = green, -1 = red Is this possible? because I am struggling, .. or maybe we can only do MTF in UT lower than that of the main graph? Thank you for your answer

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12/04/2020 at 3:59 PM #152615

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Only post in the language of the forumthat you are posting in. For example English only in the English speaking forums and French only in the French speaking forums.

Thank you 😊

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12/04/2020 at 4:00 PM #152616

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précision à ma requête précédente : ne marche pas non plus si UT principale = 1 jour et indicateur avec UT = 5 jours (au lieu de Weekly) et ne marche pas en ajoutant le “updateonclose” ie timeframe( 5 days, updateonclose)

precision to my previous request: does not work either if main UT = 1 day and indicator with UT = 5 days (instead of Weekly) and does not work by adding the “updateonclose” ie timeframe (5 days, updateonclose)

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12/10/2020 at 11:40 AM #153187

Daniele Maddaluno

I have spotted something strange in the MTF behaviour… maybe it’s me that I missed something but let’s discuss it.
I’ll put down an example: I just want to plot (using the “timeframe” instruction) a 200 ticks bars inside a 50 ticks bars graph.

So the idea is really simple and I have done as follows (see the attached pictures):

Window 0: the 200 ticks graph
Window 1: the 50 ticks graph with “PRC MTF 200 ticks v0” applied
Window 2: the 50 ticks graph with “PRC MTF 200 ticks v1” applied
Window 3: the probuilder “PRC MTF 200 ticks v0”
Window 4: the probuilder “PRC MTF 200 ticks v1”

I would expect to see inside the Window 1 and 2 the same bars (in the bottom) of Window 0 (the 200 ticks bars), but it’s not the case…
Apparently “PRC MTF 200 ticks v0” is not working as I expected.
So I wrote the “PRC MTF 200 ticks v1”, in which I have written a workaround to get what I expected to get…

I post here my two different codes:

timeframe(200 ticks, updateonclose) // --> change this line with a tf multiple of your default tf
Open1  = Open
High1  = High
Low1   = Low
Close1 = Close
drawcandle(Open1, High1, Low1, Close1)

return

timeframe(200 ticks, updateonclose) // --> change this line with a tf multiple of your default tf

Open1 = Open

High1 = High

Low1 = Low

Close1 = Close

drawcandle(Open1, High1, Low1, Close1)

return

timeframe(200 ticks, updateonclose) // --> change this line with a tf multiple of your default tf
IBar = barindex


timeframe(default, updateonclose)
newBar = IBar[1] <> IBar[2]

if newBar then
    Open1  = Open0
    High1  = max(High0, High[1])
    Low1   = min(Low0, Low[1])
    Close1 = Close[1]

    Open0  = Open
    High0  = 0
    Low0   = +1073741824 // 2^30

    drawcandle(Open1, High1, Low1, Close1)
else
    Low0 = min(Low0, Low[1])
    High0 = max(High0, High[1])
endif

return

timeframe(200 ticks, updateonclose) // --> change this line with a tf multiple of your default tf

IBar = barindex

timeframe(default, updateonclose)

newBar = IBar[1] <> IBar[2]

if newBar then

Open1 = Open0

High1 = max(High0, High[1])

Low1 = min(Low0, Low[1])

Close1 = Close[1]

Open0 = Open

High0 = 0

Low0 = +1073741824 // 2^30

drawcandle(Open1, High1, Low1, Close1)

else

Low0 = min(Low0, Low[1])

High0 = max(High0, High[1])

endif

return

Is there another simply way to get the same result that I obtained with “PRC MTF 200 ticks v1” code?

Thank you in advance!

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12/10/2020 at 11:56 AM #153194

Nicolas

With your “Version 0” code I have same candlesticks than in 200 ticks chart (same OHLC).

The way you build the current candlestick is indeed a way to do it.

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12/10/2020 at 11:59 AM #153196

Daniele Maddaluno

I have the same bars just with historical bars. In the moment I leave it run for a while on real, all values of the new bars are completely different from the “Window 0”. (PRT v11+IG)

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12/10/2020 at 2:27 PM #153224

Daniele Maddaluno

I am still investigating on it…
I have written this simple code:

timeframe(200 ticks, updateonclose)
IBar = barindex

timeframe(default, updateonclose)
return IBar

timeframe(200 ticks, updateonclose)

IBar = barindex

timeframe(default, updateonclose)

return IBar

In the two attachments: the first with a 50 ticks and 50 units, the latter 50 ticks with 1k units…
If you compare the zone that i marked in green on the attachments with the IBar variable something strange is going on I think…
At least I see that it behaves differently from how I expect.
I would expect that in both the situations the green higlighted zone would have been plotted on the same bars in the two cases. And it is not the case.

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12/10/2020 at 8:26 PM #153278

pableitor

I would like to programmatically control the timeframe (x) instruction with a variable x containing the minutes. Is that possible in any way?

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12/10/2020 at 9:05 PM #153280

robertogozzi

No, it isn’t; only numeric constants are allowed.

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12/17/2020 at 7:44 PM #154202

MacroT

Hi I use PRT with IG . They have just started rolling out v11.

IS multi time frame indicator facility available for programming in pro real code or is it still in development?

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12/17/2020 at 9:26 PM #154215

robertogozzi

Already available!

You can start writing a simple mtf indicator and test it.

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