Global Flags and Variables Ongoing Comments from Howard at Ensign

The following are followup comments and explanations made by Howard in eChat. This will be updated as Howard continues to elucidate these new features in Ensign.

November 27 , 2004

13:02 @Ensign_H: This picture shows that the 11-27 version will support Section messages on 2 lines, and Section 7 will be the space in the scale area.

13:03 @Ensign_H: To split a message on 2 lines put in a comma in the message text at the split point. A message of 'First,Second' will put the two words on different lines.

13:04 @Ensign_H: The example had a message of RSI Buy, Sell, and then a global variable reference.

14:43 @Ensign_H: 11-27 has small improvements to the Section feature of the alert, added 7th section to be the area under the scale, Read Variable -1 will show the A panel value, Read Variable -2 will show the B panel value, and a comma in the section message will split the text onto two lines.

15:05 @Ensign_H: moe, for average candle the H/L stem is drawn by an average study where ave 1 does the highs and ave 2 does the lows.

15:05 @Ensign_H: So these values are available for other studies as study on study data points.

15:06 @Ensign_H: for the example above you see a cyan and red lines connecting the ave candle highs and lows.

15:06 @Ensign_H: the property window for the average that is doing this channel is shown below the chart.

15:07 @Ensign_H: See that Data Point 1 is referencing the average in the ave candle that does the highs with 1st average and the Data Point 2 references the 2nd average which is the ave candle lows.

15:13 @Ensign_H: AND two more categories were added to make it even more powerful

15:13 @Ensign_H: added Chart Flag and Quote Flag groups yesterday

15:13 @Ensign_H: Chart Flag has some great time controls as some wanted to Not Trade near market close

15:14 @Ensign_H: easy to set an alert based on number of minutes ahead of day session close.

15:14 @Ensign_H: let me illustrate with colors

15:16 @Ensign_H: This alert uses the new Chart flag that tests for whether time is In the number of minute period before the 1st close

15:17 @Ensign_H: Number was set to 30 so it tests for 30 minutes before close and is TRUE from CloseTime-30 minutes to CloseTime and while True I colored the chart Red zone

15:19 trymph: Oh, I see .... wait; I have noticed often on tops there'll be a divergence about 10 minutes after the sling........could I put a condition in for consensus signal in the 10-12 minute after the high rsi sling?

15:20 @Ensign_H: I do not know - sounds complex to add the time delay

15:20 @Ensign_H: you could use bar offset -xx to help implement the time delay

December 17, 2004

17:00 @Ensign_H: hi... someone asked this morning for Global Variables on the Support and Resistance tool

17:00 @Ensign_H: let me show you what I have so far zed.

17:02 @Ensign_H: for example, have list of Global spinners on the S&R tool.

17:02 @Ensign_H: The 2nd Support line is asked to store its value in [9] and then have an alert that is showing [9] in the 1st Section, ie 2s=1198.08 which is the value of that line.

17:03 @Ensign_H: I will continue to add this GV technology to other draw tools like Fib levels.

17:04 @Ensign_H: now the biggy about this is you will be able to read S&R from NQ and use in tests on ES or from a different time frame and use on a chart in the logic

17:06 @Ensign_H: flat lining won't be such an issue because the lines read are already flat lines.

17:07 @Ensign_H: anyway, was not too hard to implement on S&R, so let me go add it for a few others as a beginning point and then repost an upgrade for today

17:08 zed: thanks again

17:08 @Ensign_H: welcome