Code Snippet : Time Left Info Near to the Candle/Bars

Here is a small code snippet that displays the seconds left for the bar to close near to the current running candle. If you are more focused on trading at a lower timeframe then this feature makes more sense as a lower timeframe trader. And the code is compatible with Amibroker 5.71 and onwards. It may not work with lower Amibroker versions.

 
Time left AFL code near to Current Running Candle

_SECTION_BEGIN("Time Left");

sound = ParamList("Sound Alert", "ON|OFF",0);

function GetSecondNum()

{

Time = Now( 4 );

Seconds = int( Time % 100 );

Minutes = int( Time / 100 % 100 );

Hours = int( Time / 10000 % 100 );

SecondNum = int( Hours * 60 * 60 + Minutes * 60 + Seconds );

return SecondNum;

}

RequestTimedRefresh( 1 );

TimeFrame = Interval();

SecNumber = GetSecondNum();

Newperiod = SecNumber % TimeFrame == 0;

SecsLeft = SecNumber - int( SecNumber / TimeFrame ) * TimeFrame;

SecsToGo = TimeFrame - SecsLeft;


if ( NewPeriod )

{

GfxSelectSolidBrush( colorYellow );

GfxSelectPen( colorYellow, 2 );

if(sound=="ON")
{
_TRACE("New Period Alert");
Say( "New period" );
}
}


PlotTextSetFont(NumToStr(SecsToGo,1,False)+ " Sec Left", "Arial", 10, BarCount-1, Close[BarCount-1], colorred, colorDefault, -30 ); 


_SECTION_END(); 

Timeleft Parameter Settings

Sound Alert is Control added to the External Parameters section and now one can toggle between Sound Off/On from the external dashboard as shown below. Right click over the charts and goto parameters to access the External Parameter Settings where you can control the sound settings. Sound Alert uses Text to speech based Amibroker Alerts

How to Setup the AFL in Amibroker

1)Download Timeleft – Amibroker AFL Code.
2)Unzip Timeleft afl to local folder
3)Copy Timeleft.afl file to \\program files\\amibroker\\formula\\basic folder\\
5)Open Amibroker
6)Goto Charts->Basic Charts and apply/drag-and-drop the Timeleft code over any of your stratgies containing candle/bars over any timeframe.
7)Bingo you are done. Now you will be able to see the timeleft indicatons with sound alerts enabled by default.