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

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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

 
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

Timeleft Properties

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.

Rajandran R Telecom Engineer turned Full-time Derivative Trader. Mostly Trading Nifty, Banknifty, USDINR and High Liquid Stock Derivatives. Trading the Markets Since 2006 onwards. Using Market Profile and Orderflow for more than a decade. Designed and published 100+ open source trading systems on various trading tools. Strongly believe that market understanding and robust trading frameworks are the key to the trading success. Writing about Markets, Trading System Design, Market Sentiment, Trading Softwares & Trading Nuances since 2007 onwards. Author of Marketcalls.in)

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4 Replies to “Code Snippet : Time Left Info Near to the…”

  1. Sir, below line shows error 32.

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

    Please check it.

      1. yes Sir, my version is Amibroker 5.60
        for this version what is the solution?

  2. sir, i am using 10 minute candle. for example if market open 9:15, the next candle would be 9:25. however, time left code showing 600 seconds. but instead of alerting 9:25, it will alert on 9:20. could you please let us know how to adjust. it.

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