Plotting lines from Signals

We know well, how TradeStation and thus, MultiCharts, have been an evergreen problem for programmers, and it’s 2020 and they still don’t support ABC functionalities needed for programmers.

One of them is plotting from strategy. As it’s not that easy to achieve it, we have to use some extra approaches. One approach is to use i_setplotvalue function. However, to simplify things, we made a helper indicator, which does that already

TC__PlotFromStrategy

You can make your work simpler by using the ready-made helper indicator, which can plot lines from strategies.

• 1) In strategy, use like this:

input: my_plot_id(134); //random id for your plot value

my_value= (high+low)/2;
i_setplotvalue(my_plot_id * +1, my_value ); //Value: use +1 index 
i_setplotvalue(my_plot_id * -1, green );    //Color: use -1 index
i_setplotvalue(my_plot_id * -2, 3);         //Width: use -2 index

• 2) Then attach the TC__PlotFromStrategy indicator onto chart and set the same ID in first plot (i.e. 134 as in above example).

P.S.  If you want to apply lines on main chart, go to Indicator > Format > Scaling and choose  Same as instrument, and also, in Properties, choose Sub-Chart 1.

Download  TC__PlotFromStrategy