Group drawings and indicators in an Object Tree instead of Object List

Created at 28 Mar 2015, 00:49
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GunArm

Joined 15.04.2015

Group drawings and indicators in an Object Tree instead of Object List
28 Mar 2015, 00:49


This would not be trivial to implement, but it would be very powerful feature. Here is why. This will take a some words to explain, fair warning. The TL;DR is that this would make managing tons of drawings easier without making a mess.

Like most traders, I draw S/R lines on many time frames. I start on the highest time frame and put my S/R lines there, then I drill down to the lower time frames, limiting myself to more recent data the lower I go. I end up on the 10 minute chart with lines all very close together, which look like a blob on the daily chart. It's so many lines in total that it causes problems because they are everywhere visually its hard to click anywhere without hitting one so you end up dragging them around on accident and messing them up.

To deal with this problem in TradingView, I have started putting my lines inside scripts. Separate scripts for 1w, D, 4H, H, and <H. For starters this keeps me from accidentally dragging them around, which is why I did it originally. But more importantly it allows me to turn them on and off in groups.. So if I'm on a 10 minute time frame I leave them all on. If I'm on a 4h timeframe, I turn off H and <H, since they just make a mess. If I'm on the D timeframe, I turn off 4H. It is VERY useful, and not really possible to do in cTrader.

A way that this could be implemented is by having an "Objects Tree" instead of merely an "Objects List". We can make "folder" nodes, which can hold other folder nodes, and nodes inherit settings from their parent nodes. Then we can add lines (or fibs, even indicators, whatever) inside a folder called "H". On the "properties" of the "H" folder-node, set things like what timeframes it's containing objects are visible in, or additionally you could lock all the objects. You could even put those folder-nodes inside another folder node and call it "S/R Levels", and then turn all S/R levels off if you wanted to focus on something else. And have another top level node for fibs, as an example. To be clear, I am proposing that all of these nodes and their names be user created and customizable.

Being able to hide/show/lock/manipulate objects in groups would be very useful. And having certain groups automatically show/hide based on the current timeframe would be simply awesome.


@GunArm