Smart money indicator (using Arrays)

• 07/23/2023 at 6:00 AM #218018
  amitoverseas40

  Just a suggestion monochrome,  not sure of the programming challenge though.  How about we only draw if the distance between previous and current low or high is > say 30 points (variable can be used dependingon instrument). Most of the time markets are ranging and with high spread and stop loss,  trades doesn’t make sense anyway.

  Regardless of timeframe, this strategy will avoid Cluttor on chart with prior calc done before drawing , and provide a clear see through area worth to trade in anticipation of fill?

  Sl can be higher or lower of current or previous bars and target is the high or low identified!

  I tried loading with only 500 bars and its manageable

  

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  07/23/2023 at 9:56 AM #218027
  Monochrome

  We can add a minimum distance before detection to reduce the noise. Personally I like to see all the gaps.
  It will still be slow when backtesting. When I get time I’ll see if I can recode it so there’s a set limit of arrays and rearrange as roberto and Peter suggested. I need to search the forum for prev examples of such code.

   

  MinDistance = 5*pipsize If high > max(high[1],high[2]) and (high - max(high[1],high[2])) > mindistance then

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  MinDistance = 5*pipsize   If high > max(high[1],high[2]) and (high - max(high[1],high[2])) > mindistance then

  Not tested as replying from phone.

  

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  09/21/2023 at 3:12 PM #221395
  JC_Bywan

  Hi,

  in case you are still using this and would still want to gain a bit of speed, I had a look at it as part of my late unread summer posts. By the way as Roberto said above, many needed help. This topic came the day after I had to be offline for a few weeks for personal reasons and I thank Nicolas and Roberto for their offline support during these few weeks, and even now as I still have to be offline sometimes.

  Basically, your loop ends up being very big with gapsindex continuously growing, but as importantly, you do lots of unnecessary calculations inside it, you can avoid most of them  (perhaps all, would require a closer look) with the if statements structure modified as follows.

  Also, this is a drawonlastbaronly=true code, so why would you keep graphic commands done on any bar not being the last one? At code launch you wouldn’t see any of the graphics asked during previous bars of history anyway as only the latest graphic output would appear, but you would still “pay” the time spent on executing the graphics commands (done many more times than you see it written because of the loop avg size multiplied by the number of bars the loop is executed). An “if islastbarupdate” can reduce this by not spending time on graphics not displayed. All together, early test show time reduced by more than 2 when applying these modifications on code from post #217882:

  DEFPARAM DrawOnLastBarOnly = true DEFPARAM CalculateOnLastBars = 2000 ONCE GapsIndex = 0 // Identify and store high gaps IF High > Max(High[1], High[2]) THEN $HighGapsTop[GapsIndex] = High $HighGapsBottom[GapsIndex] = Max(High[1], High[2]) $GapStartHigh[GapsIndex] = BarIndex $HighGapStatus[GapsIndex] = 0 $GapEndHigh[GapsIndex] = barindex $GapFilledHigh[GapsIndex] = 0 GapsIndex = GapsIndex + 1 ENDIF // Identify and store low gaps IF Low < Min(Low[1], Low[2]) THEN $LowGapsTop[GapsIndex] = Min(Low[1], Low[2]) $LowGapsBottom[GapsIndex] = Low $GapStartLow[GapsIndex] = BarIndex $LowGapStatus[GapsIndex] = 0 $GapEndLow[GapsIndex] = barindex $GapFilledLow[GapsIndex] = 0 GapsIndex = GapsIndex + 1 ENDIF // GAP status // 0 for not filled // 1 for filled upwards (High crosses over $HighGapsTop[i] and Low < $HighGapsBottom[i]) // 2 for filled downwards (Low crosses under $HighGapsBottom[i] and High > $HighGapsTop[i]) // 3 for partially filled upwards (High > $HighGapsBottom[i] and High < $HighGapsTop[i]) // 4 for partially filled downwards (Low > $HighGapsBottom[i] and Low < $HighGapsTop[i]) // 5 for filled upwards (Low crosses under $LowGapsBottom[i] and High > $LowGapsTop[i]) // 6 for filled downwards (High crosses over $LowGapsTop[i] and Low < $LowGapsBottom[i]) // 7 for partially filled upwards (Low > $LowGapsBottom[i] and Low < $LowGapsTop[i]) // 8 for partially filled downwards (High > $LowGapsBottom[i] and High < $LowGapsTop[i]) // Loop over all identified gaps and draw rectangles if they have not been filled FOR i = 1 TO GapsIndex-1 DO // High gaps if $GapFilledHigh[i]=0 then IF High > $HighGapsTop[i] AND Low < $HighGapsBottom[i] THEN // Gap Status 1 $GapFilledHigh[i] = 1 $HighGapStatus[i] = 1 $GapEndHigh[i] = BarIndex ELSIF Low < $HighGapsBottom[i] AND High > $HighGapsTop[i] THEN // Gap Status 2 $GapFilledHigh[i] = 1 $HighGapStatus[i] = 2 $GapEndHigh[i] = BarIndex ELSIF High > $HighGapsBottom[i] AND High < $HighGapsTop[i] THEN // Gap Status 3 $HighGapsBottom[i] = high $HighGapStatus[i] = 3 ELSIF Low > $HighGapsBottom[i] AND Low < $HighGapsTop[i] THEN // Gap Status 4 $HighGapsTop[i] = low $HighGapStatus[i] = 4 ENDIF endif // Low gaps if $GapFilledLow[i]=0 then IF Low < $LowGapsBottom[i] AND High > $LowGapsTop[i] THEN // Gap Status 5 $LowGapStatus[i] = 5 $GapEndLow[i] = BarIndex $GapFilledLow[i] = 1 ELSIF High > $LowGapsTop[i] AND Low < $LowGapsBottom[i] THEN // Gap Status 6 $LowGapStatus[i] = 6 $GapEndLow[i] = BarIndex $GapFilledLow[i] = 1 ELSIF Low > $LowGapsBottom[i] AND Low < $LowGapsTop[i] THEN // Gap Status 7 $LowGapsTop[i] = low $LowGapStatus[i] = 7 ELSIF High > $LowGapsBottom[i] AND High < $LowGapsTop[i] THEN // Gap Status 8 $LowGapsBottom[i] = high $LowGapStatus[i] = 8 ENDIF endif NEXT if islastbarupdate then FOR i = 1 TO GapsIndex-1 DO IF $HighGapStatus[i] <> 0 then if $GapFilledHigh[i] = 1 THEN DRAWRECTANGLE($GapStartHigh[i], $HighGapsTop[i], $GapEndHigh[i], $HighGapsBottom[i]) coloured("red", 20) bordercolor("black", 20) ELSe DRAWRECTANGLE($GapStartHigh[i], $HighGapsTop[i], barindex, $HighGapsBottom[i]) coloured("red", 20) bordercolor("black", 20) ENDIF endif IF $LowGapStatus[i] <> 0 then if $GapFilledLow[i] = 1 THEN DRAWRECTANGLE($GapStartLow[i], $LowGapsTop[i], $GapEndLow[i], $LowGapsBottom[i]) coloured("blue", 20) bordercolor("black", 20) else DRAWRECTANGLE($GapStartLow[i], $LowGapsTop[i], barindex, $LowGapsBottom[i]) coloured("blue", 20) bordercolor("black", 20) ENDIF endif NEXT endif RETURN

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  DEFPARAM DrawOnLastBarOnly = true DEFPARAM CalculateOnLastBars = 2000   ONCE GapsIndex = 0   // Identify and store high gaps IF High > Max(High[1], High[2]) THEN $HighGapsTop[GapsIndex] = High $HighGapsBottom[GapsIndex] = Max(High[1], High[2]) $GapStartHigh[GapsIndex] = BarIndex $HighGapStatus[GapsIndex] = 0 $GapEndHigh[GapsIndex] = barindex $GapFilledHigh[GapsIndex] = 0 GapsIndex = GapsIndex + 1 ENDIF   // Identify and store low gaps IF Low < Min(Low[1], Low[2]) THEN $LowGapsTop[GapsIndex] = Min(Low[1], Low[2]) $LowGapsBottom[GapsIndex] = Low $GapStartLow[GapsIndex] = BarIndex $LowGapStatus[GapsIndex] = 0 $GapEndLow[GapsIndex] = barindex $GapFilledLow[GapsIndex] = 0 GapsIndex = GapsIndex + 1 ENDIF   // GAP status // 0 for not filled // 1 for filled upwards (High crosses over $HighGapsTop[i] and Low < $HighGapsBottom[i]) // 2 for filled downwards (Low crosses under $HighGapsBottom[i] and High > $HighGapsTop[i]) // 3 for partially filled upwards (High > $HighGapsBottom[i] and High < $HighGapsTop[i]) // 4 for partially filled downwards (Low > $HighGapsBottom[i] and Low < $HighGapsTop[i]) // 5 for filled upwards (Low crosses under $LowGapsBottom[i] and High > $LowGapsTop[i]) // 6 for filled downwards (High crosses over $LowGapsTop[i] and Low < $LowGapsBottom[i]) // 7 for partially filled upwards (Low > $LowGapsBottom[i] and Low < $LowGapsTop[i]) // 8 for partially filled downwards (High > $LowGapsBottom[i] and High < $LowGapsTop[i])   // Loop over all identified gaps and draw rectangles if they have not been filled   FOR i = 1 TO GapsIndex-1 DO // High gaps if $GapFilledHigh[i]=0 then IF High > $HighGapsTop[i] AND Low < $HighGapsBottom[i] THEN // Gap Status 1 $GapFilledHigh[i] = 1 $HighGapStatus[i] = 1 $GapEndHigh[i] = BarIndex ELSIF Low < $HighGapsBottom[i] AND High > $HighGapsTop[i] THEN // Gap Status 2 $GapFilledHigh[i] = 1 $HighGapStatus[i] = 2 $GapEndHigh[i] = BarIndex ELSIF High > $HighGapsBottom[i] AND High < $HighGapsTop[i] THEN // Gap Status 3 $HighGapsBottom[i] = high $HighGapStatus[i] = 3 ELSIF Low > $HighGapsBottom[i] AND Low < $HighGapsTop[i] THEN // Gap Status 4 $HighGapsTop[i] = low $HighGapStatus[i] = 4 ENDIF endif // Low gaps if $GapFilledLow[i]=0 then IF Low < $LowGapsBottom[i] AND High > $LowGapsTop[i] THEN // Gap Status 5 $LowGapStatus[i] = 5 $GapEndLow[i] = BarIndex $GapFilledLow[i] = 1 ELSIF High > $LowGapsTop[i] AND Low < $LowGapsBottom[i] THEN // Gap Status 6 $LowGapStatus[i] = 6 $GapEndLow[i] = BarIndex $GapFilledLow[i] = 1 ELSIF Low > $LowGapsBottom[i] AND Low < $LowGapsTop[i] THEN // Gap Status 7 $LowGapsTop[i] = low $LowGapStatus[i] = 7 ELSIF High > $LowGapsBottom[i] AND High < $LowGapsTop[i] THEN // Gap Status 8 $LowGapsBottom[i] = high $LowGapStatus[i] = 8 ENDIF endif NEXT if islastbarupdate then FOR i = 1 TO GapsIndex-1 DO IF $HighGapStatus[i] <> 0 then if $GapFilledHigh[i] = 1 THEN DRAWRECTANGLE($GapStartHigh[i], $HighGapsTop[i], $GapEndHigh[i], $HighGapsBottom[i]) coloured("red", 20) bordercolor("black", 20) ELSe DRAWRECTANGLE($GapStartHigh[i], $HighGapsTop[i], barindex, $HighGapsBottom[i]) coloured("red", 20) bordercolor("black", 20) ENDIF endif IF $LowGapStatus[i] <> 0 then if $GapFilledLow[i] = 1 THEN DRAWRECTANGLE($GapStartLow[i], $LowGapsTop[i], $GapEndLow[i], $LowGapsBottom[i]) coloured("blue", 20) bordercolor("black", 20) else DRAWRECTANGLE($GapStartLow[i], $LowGapsTop[i], barindex, $LowGapsBottom[i]) coloured("blue", 20) bordercolor("black", 20) ENDIF endif NEXT endif   RETURN

   

   

  

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