outlined candles in 9.5 Tradestation

Did anyone get the outlined candles to work in the 9.5 version? I reverted back to 9.1 b/c I couldn't get it back to work but never asked anyone here if they got it to work. I am still using the Solidus version in the 9.1. I like the black and white candles and can't control the color on the 9.5 version. Did anyone else get it to work?

Yes I am using 9.5 with Solidus. Did not do anything special to get it to work although I think I had to reload Solidus. Did not like the out of the box outlines provided by 9.5. More the candle size than anything else. I hate big fat candles.

I will try reloading solidus. Candles are ugly and the Xmas cross is over candles instead of behind them on 9.5. I hope it doesn't mess up 9.1 since that is what I have been using.

Not sure what to tell you. Make sure bar type through TS is set to dot on close - nothing else. You cannot have bar type set to bars, candles, or anything else when using Solidus. Solidus handles adding the candles. Beyond that indicators that show on top of candles has to do with the way indicators are added. The first you add takes priority of the second and so on. The first thing you add will always be on top according to the documentation. Got on my nerves until I figured out how to correct. The only easy I know how to correct and get it like QC is to remove everything and start adding back with Solidus being first, then maybe BBs, and finally moving averages. Hope that helps.

NCT

Hey NCT:

I just upgraded to 9.5; it is sweet.

My candles switched over fine

Chunk



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/25/2014 09:32PM by Chunk.

I love 9.5. Can't put my finger on it but like it a lot better. More efficient, doesn't eat up as many system resources, and the graphics are closer to Qcharts. A lot cleaner and crisper lines.

I haven't had time to work on it, but I will go back and start from scratch. Thanks so much. I just assumed I would be able to download everything without having to change everything but that wasn't the case. But again, I busy all during the day doing school and at night I just want to look at the charts without having to figure it out. Thanks again ya'll.

FYI.. I had a few minutes today and decided to apply the 9.5 version 6 update to TS. Once installed the Solidus app no longer worked. After fooling around with it I finally contacted a TS specialist. The TS guy is getting the same error "Solidus... has not been verified". Since this is a private app there is no way for anyone other than the developer to resolve the issue by verifying and redistributing the code. I have no idea why everything was working previously up to the point of loading 9.5 v6. My guess is that I had an older version of the Solidus app loaded and it tried to update when I loaded the newest version of TS. So I am out candle sticks until resolved. A ticket has been opened by TS for escalation. My recommendation is not to apply any updates for a few days or you might loose your the candle functionality you are used to. That said you can always you the out of the box candle version (I do not really care for that one). :-)

Plan B... locate original source code. Solidus posted quite a bit of code in the community over the years. Prior to the TS free app he freely provided the code many times in the forum. Below is the code that appears to work fine in TS 9.5 v6. Still not sure why the app version shows as unverified.

inputs:	 UPcolor(green), DNcolor(red), WICKcolor(black), WICKwidth(1), BODYwidth(3)		;

variables:	
color(0), 
BodySize(iff(bodywidth=2, 1, iff(bodywidth>4, 4, bodywidth) )),
Outline(iff(bodysize=0, 2, iff(bodysize=1, 3, iff(bodysize=3, 4, 5)))  ), 	
colorU(UPcolor), 
colorD(DNcolor),
colorW(WICKcolor)	;


{ Outlined Candles by Solidus

pixel sizes of plot widths
0 - 1px 
1 - 2 
2 - 3 
3 - 4 
4 - 6 
5 - 8 
6 - 14 
}

{  -------------------------       Revision 1 Aug 15 07  ------------------------------
  - Simplified coloring code for efficiency. 
		- Removed Once command to permit use with pre-8.2 Tradestation.
		- Added efficiency fix so RGB color values as inputs need only calculate once on startup.
}


if c>o then color=colorU else color=colorD;

plot1(c,"c outline a",colorW,0,outline );
plot2(c,"c outline b" );
plot3(o,"o outline a",colorW,0,outline );
plot4(o,"o outline b" );

Plot5(c,"C",color,0,bodysize ); 
Plot6(o,"O" ); 

Plot7(c,"C outline",colorW,0,outline ); 
Plot8(o,"O outline" ); 

plot9(h,"H",colorW,0,WICKwidth); 
plot10(l,"L" ); 

I will tackle this next weekend. I don't want to screw up my charts this week since I have been studying past plays and am ready for some good trades. I get so inspired seeing others good trades and I have been doing a lot of looking at successful past trades and seeing how the charts looked so I will study this next weekend. Thanks again for your kind help. shannon