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shamilton
Posted : Monday, August 23, 2010 8:41:23 AM
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Joined: 1/25/2005
Posts: 13

Hello,

I have written a couple of realcode indicators.  Is there someone who can have a look and suggest any optimizations.  They are use with streaming data and have conditions attached to them.
The conditions I use are:

1) TradeRange > 98
2) TradeRange < 02
3) VolumeSurge > 3

I combine the conditions into a combo condition and then sort my watchlist on the combo condition by bars since true.   I really only need to know when the conditions are met on the current bar.  I use this with realtime data so I would like it to be as quick as possible.

Any help with this is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Shawn


#1 Volume Surge (Intraday): This indicator calculates volume surge. It's a little different though as it calculates the average volume per bar time.  For example if you use 10 MovAvgDays on a 30 minute chart it will (or should ) add up past ten 10am bars to calculate the volume surge for the 10am bar and so on.   I did it this way because there is usually higher volume in the morning and afternoon and I wanted to normalize this.

'# MovAvgDays = UserInput.integer = 10

Dim BarsPerDay As Integer
Dim Count As Integer
Dim VolumeSurge As Single = 0
Dim VolumeAverage As Single = 0

' Calculate BarsPerDay if Intraday
If Me.BarInterval.Days > 0 Then
 ' Daily or higher
 BarsPerDay = 1
Else
 ' Intraday
 BarsPerDay = System.Math.Round(.4999 + 390 / Me.BarInterval.TotalMinutes)
End If

' Calculate VolumeSurge 
For Count = 1 To (MovAvgDays * BarsPerDay) Step BarsPerDay
 VolumeAverage += Volume.Value(Count - 1)
Next Count
VolumeAverage = VolumeAverage / MovAvgDays
VolumeSurge = Volume.Value / VolumeAverage
 
Plot = VolumeSurge



#2 Trade Range (Intraday): Most of this code is from another post and was written by Bruce L - see post S.F 5.0 scan please .  This indicator can be used on a intraday chart to correctly calculate the percent trade range for the current day.

Static DayLow As Single
Static DayHigh As Single
Static Valid As Boolean
If isFirstBar Then
 DayLow = Single.NaN
 DayHigh = Single.NaN
 Valid = False
Else If Price.DateValue.DayOfYear <> Price.DateValue(1).DayOfYear Then
 DayLow = Price.Low
 DayHigh = Price.High
 Valid = True
End If
DayLow = System.Math.Min(DayLow, Price.Low)
DayHigh = System.Math.Max(DayHigh, Price.High)
If Valid = True Then
 If DayHigh > DayLow Then
  Plot = 100 * (Price.Last - DayLow) / (DayHigh - DayLow)
 End If
Else
 SetIndexInvalid
End If
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