A paintbar study designed to ‘paint’ the minute bar on a 10 second bar chart. It uses two different approaches:
1) Since the Time or T statement represents time in an HHMM format it does not store seconds. This means that we can detect the minute bar when T <> T[1], i.e. time this bar is different from time last bar (ignoring seconds)
2) The second approach used the DateTime class to give the second in the time. When the seconds are zero it means that the current bar is a minute bar.
Quick-tip 76 applied to 10 seconds GBPUSD chart
Copy the quick-tip 76 TradeStation EasyLanguage PaintBar study code
You can copy the tutorial code below.
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{ A paintbar study designed to 'paint' the minute bar on a 10 second bar chart. It uses two different approaches:
1) Since the Time or T statement represents time in an HHMM format it does not store seconds. This means that
we can detect the minute bar when T <> T[1], i.e. time this bar is different from time last bar (ignoring seconds)
2) The second approach used the DateTime class to give the second in the time. When the seconds are zero it means that
the current bar is a minute bar.}
// Ver. 1.0 Nov 17, 2022 Original version
// Namespace for the DateTime class
//Using elsystem;
Input: int Color( Magenta ); // The color to paint the minute bars on a 10 second chart
// Time or T return a numeric expression representing the EasyLanguage time (HHMM format)
If T <> T[1] then PlotPB( H, L, "Minute", Color ); // I.e. if the time is different from the last bar (ignoring seconds)
// References the DateTime object properties for the specific bar (see the DateTime class)
If BarDateTime.Second = 0 then PlotPB( H, L, "Minute", Color ); // i.e. when the second value is zero
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