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Hi there,

Is it possible to make the 'streams' (instance:addStream) so that it displays tranparently?

ie: I want to display full lenght (bar) streams on chart but have them transparent so that I can still see the trading candles

barTrigger = instance:addStream("Trigger", core.Bar, name, "Trigger", instance.parameters.Trigger_color, 0);

barBuy = instance:addStream("Buy", core.Bar, name, "Buy", instance.parameters.Buy_color, 0);
barStop = instance:addStream("Stop", core.Bar, name, "Stop", instance.parameters.Stop_color, 0);

barLimit = instance:addStream("Limit", core.Bar, name, "Limit", instance.parameters.Limit_color, 0);

barTradeDayEnd = instance:addStream("TradeDayEnd", core.Bar, name, "Day End", instance.parameters.TradeDayEnd_color, 0);

So need streams to be transparent or another option would be to place streams behind candles, either will do as long as I can see the candles

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers
LordTwig

Looks like the usage of transparent channels could solve the issue.
Please see the method instance:createChannelGroup.

Please see also the example of an indicator with transparent channels:


Trading Session Hours indicator

Also note that the standard Marketscope Ichimoku indicator uses this function.

Hi Sunshine,

The trouble with

sunshine wrote:Looks like the usage of transparent channels could solve the issue.
Please see the method instance:createChannelGroup.

is that you need two (2) or more streams in channel for this to work, whereas my streams are independant of each other...? ......is that correct??

Yes I looked at the Session Trading Hours Indicator before posting, but cannot get it to work with only one stream.

Besides that, I would prefer the bars to be as shown 'full lenght' on chart (attached) but transparent or behind candles.

The reason I want to do this is the 'stream' dots or lines or widgets are too small and too close to candles, I prefer bigger and set straight horizontally, as shown.

Any way to do this??....... or add this feature to Marketscope?

Thanks
LordTwig

1) You can wait a bit for a next release of Marketscope which will provide the feature "draw in background" for all chart elements including indicators. Please watch for updates on the site.
2) However I believe it's possible to use transparent channels in this case. I'll prepare the example.

Please find the sample in the attachment. The indicator draws transparent bars with different colors for certain periods.

Hey, Sunshine,

Wow, thanks for that, looks just the way I want it.
I will attempt to incorporate in my indicator.

Cheers
LordTwig

Sunshine,

I keep getting this error
'attempt to perform arithmetic on field '?' (a nil value)'

for this code
HighBorder[period] = source[period] * 1000;

if I remove the (* 1000) it loads but won't show transparent bar or any bar in fact.

Can you advise a fix?

LordTwig

If your indicator requires bar source (indicator:requiredSource(core.Bar)), use "source.close[period]" instead of "source[period]". Just a thought. It's hard to fix without seeing the full code.

Or check for something like source = ... somewhere else in the code. Probably you replaced the value of the source with number. I sometimes make such mistake with output streams, i.e. write
output = blah-blah-blah instead of output[period] = blah-blah-blah.

Hi,

Yep, got it working now, thanks for your inputs......

LordTwig