Dear all
I try to add a moving average to macd histogram. The color of the line will change if the histogram cross this line. So, I use two arrays, ind_buffer5 and ind_buffer6 to hold the moving average values. I don't why my indicator can only show the value in ind_buffer5 and the value of ind_buffer6 is always zero. Therefore, I simple subsitute different value to ind_buffer6,e.g. ind_buffer6=0.01*i. But the result is still the same. All the values in ind_buffer6 are zero. I kown that the maximun number of indicator_buffer is 8. I didn't exceed its limit. Why this happen??
Could anyone help me solving these problem?
thank you very much
Victor
PHP Code:
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Custom MACD.mq4 |
//| Copyright ?2004, MetaQuotes Software Corp. |
//| [url]http://www.metaquotes.net/[/url] |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
#property copyright "Copyright ?2004, MetaQuotes Software Corp."
#property link "http://www.metaquotes.net/"
//---- indicator settings
#property indicator_separate_window
#property indicator_buffers 6
#property indicator_color1 OrangeRed
#property indicator_color2 Yellow
#property indicator_color3 Lime
#property indicator_color4 OrangeRed
#property indicator_color5 Aqua
#property indicator_color6 Red
//int indicator_color3;
//---- indicator parameters
extern int FastEMA=19;
extern int SlowEMA=89;
extern int SignalSMA=13;
extern int HisEMA=5;
//extern double Interval=0.001;
//---- indicator buffers
double ind_buffer1[];
double ind_buffer2[];
double ind_buffer3[];
double ind_buffer4[];
double ind_buffer5[];
double ind_buffer6[];
double temp,temp1;
double temp2[],temp3[];
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Custom indicator initialization function |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int init()
{
//---- drawing settings
SetIndexStyle(0,DRAW_LINE,STYLE_SOLID,1);
SetIndexStyle(1,DRAW_LINE,STYLE_SOLID,1);
SetIndexStyle(2,DRAW_HISTOGRAM,STYLE_SOLID,1);
SetIndexStyle(3,DRAW_HISTOGRAM,STYLE_SOLID,1);
SetIndexStyle(4,DRAW_LINE,STYLE_SOLID,1);
SetIndexStyle(5,DRAW_LINE,STYLE_SOLID,1);
SetIndexDrawBegin(1,SignalSMA);
IndicatorDigits(MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_DIGITS)+1 );
//---- indicator buffers mapping
if(!SetIndexBuffer(0,ind_buffer1) && !SetIndexBuffer(1,ind_buffer2)&& !SetIndexBuffer(2,ind_buffer3)&& !SetIndexBuffer(3,ind_buffer4)&& !SetIndexBuffer(4,ind_buffer5))
Print("cannot set indicator buffers!");
//---- name for DataWindow and indicator subwindow label
IndicatorShortName("MACD("+FastEMA+","+SlowEMA+","+SignalSMA+")");
SetIndexLabel(0,"MACD");
SetIndexLabel(1,"Signal");
//---- initialization done
return(0);
}
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Moving Averages Convergence/Divergence |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int start()
{
int limit;
int counted_bars=IndicatorCounted();
//---- check for possible errors
if(counted_bars<0) return(-1);
//---- last counted bar will be recounted
if(counted_bars>0) counted_bars--;
limit=Bars-counted_bars;
ArrayResize( temp2, limit);
ArraySetAsSeries(temp2,true);
ArrayResize( temp3, limit);
ArraySetAsSeries(temp3,true);
//---- macd counted in the 1-st buffer
for(int i=0; i<limit; i++)
ind_buffer1[i]=iMA(NULL,0,FastEMA,0,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE,i)-iMA(NULL,0,SlowEMA,0,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE,i);
//---- signal line counted in the 2-nd buffer
for(i=0; i<limit; i++)
ind_buffer2[i]=iMAOnArray(ind_buffer1,Bars,SignalSMA,0,MODE_SMA, i);
for(i=0; i<limit; i++)
{
temp=3.8*(ind_buffer1[i]-ind_buffer2[i]);
temp1=(ind_buffer1[i]-ind_buffer2[i])-(ind_buffer1[i+1]-ind_buffer2 [i+1]);
if(temp1>0) {ind_buffer3[i]=temp;ind_buffer4[i]=0;}
else {ind_buffer3[i]=0;ind_buffer4[i]=temp;}
}
for(i=0; i<limit; i++)
{
temp2[i]=3.8*(ind_buffer1[i]-ind_buffer2[i]);
}
for(i=0; i<limit; i++)
{
temp3[i]=iMAOnArray(temp2,Bars,HisEMA,0,MODE_EMA,i);
if(temp2[i]>temp3[i]) {ind_buffer5[i]=temp3[i];ind_buffer6[i]=0;}
else {ind_buffer5[i]=0;ind_buffer6[i]=temp3[i];}
}
//---- done
return(0);
}