Category Other  Published on 28/12/2020

Hours Overlay

Description

Add an overlay to your chart based on selected hours and minutes. Developed for myself, to overlay out-of-cash market hours, might be not perfect, but works.

Changelog:

  • v0.1 - initial code
  • v0.2 - covering area before reaching "new" end hour/minute, previously indicator was not painting


using System;
using cAlgo.API;
using cAlgo.API.Internals;
using cAlgo.API.Indicators;
using cAlgo.Indicators;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace cAlgo
{
    [Indicator(IsOverlay = true, TimeZone = TimeZones.UTC, AccessRights = AccessRights.None)]
    public class HoursOverlay : Indicator
    {
        [Parameter("Hour start", Group = "Start (UTC)", MinValue = 0, MaxValue = 23, Step = 1, DefaultValue = 9)]
        public int hourStart { get; set; }
        [Parameter("Minute start", Group = "Start (UTC)", MinValue = 0, MaxValue = 59, Step = 1, DefaultValue = 0)]
        public int minuteStart { get; set; }
        [Parameter("Hour end", Group = "End (UTC)", MinValue = 0, MaxValue = 23, Step = 1, DefaultValue = 17)]
        public int hourEnd { get; set; }
        [Parameter("Minute end", Group = "End (UTC)", MinValue = 0, MaxValue = 59, Step = 1, DefaultValue = 30)]
        public int minuteEnd { get; set; }
        [Parameter("Red", Group = "Color", MinValue = 0, MaxValue = 255, DefaultValue = 125)]
        public int red { get; set; }
        [Parameter("Green", Group = "Color", MinValue = 0, MaxValue = 255, DefaultValue = 125)]
        public int green { get; set; }
        [Parameter("Blue", Group = "Color", MinValue = 0, MaxValue = 255, DefaultValue = 125)]
        public int blue { get; set; }
        [Parameter("Alpha", Group = "Color", MinValue = 0, MaxValue = 255, DefaultValue = 120)]
        public int alpha { get; set; }

        private bool startedPainting;
        private int paintStart;

        private List<ChartRectangle> rectangles;
        private bool repaintingRects;
        private int repaintingStarted;

        protected override void Initialize()
        {
            startedPainting = false;
            rectangles = new List<ChartRectangle>();
            Chart.ScrollChanged += onChangeRecalcRectangles;
        }

        public override void Calculate(int index)
        {
            if (timeFrameTooHigh(Chart.TimeFrame))
            {
                return;
            }
            if (!startedPainting)
            {
                startedPainting = Bars.OpenTimes[index].Hour == hourStart && Bars.OpenTimes[index].Minute == minuteStart;
                paintStart = index;
            }

            if (startedPainting)
            {
                if (reachedEndOfRectangle(index) || reachedEndOfChart())
                {
                    var r = Chart.DrawRectangle("i" + index, Bars.OpenTimes[paintStart], Chart.TopY, Bars.OpenTimes[index - 1], Chart.BottomY, Color.FromArgb(alpha, red, green, blue));
                    r.IsFilled = true;
                    rectangles.Add(r);
                    startedPainting = false;
                }

            }
        }

        void onChangeRecalcRectangles(Object args)
        {
            var now = System.DateTime.Now.Millisecond;
            if (repaintingRects && (now - repaintingStarted) < 50)
            {
                return;
            }
            repaintingStarted = now;
            repaintingRects = true;
            foreach (var r in rectangles)
            {
                r.Y1 = Chart.TopY;
                r.Y2 = Chart.BottomY;
            }
            repaintingRects = false;
        }

        private bool reachedEndOfRectangle(int index)
        {
            return Bars.OpenTimes[index].Hour == hourEnd && Bars.OpenTimes[index].Minute == minuteEnd;
        }

        private bool reachedEndOfChart()
        {
            return IsLastBar;
        }

        private bool timeFrameTooHigh(TimeFrame chartTimeFrame)
        {
            return chartTimeFrame >= TimeFrame.Daily;
        }
    }
}


KA
kamilsz

Joined on 23.12.2020

  • Distribution: Free
  • Language: C#
  • Trading platform: cTrader Automate
  • File name: HoursOverlay.algo
  • Rating: 5
  • Installs: 1380
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rafciub · 3 years ago

Thank you for this. It seems to be working very well!