Hi,

Is it possible to take the output of one indicator plot as input to another? Let's use an example:

Bollinger bands plots a moving average with two bands. Is it possible to pipe the band values into another plot in order to calculate and plot the width of the bands in another window?

There are a number of uses for this type of logic but that's a good basic example.

Regards,

Dave

Plot1Ago...Plot9Ago properties

Returns/Assigns value of the output series.

Syntax

Plot1Ago(BarsAgo) = value
value = Plot1Ago(BarsAgo)

The Plot1Ago property syntax has these parts:

Part	Description
BarsAgo	Number of the bar
value	Price value on that bar

The following custom indicator demonstrates how you can access previous values of the plots:

 Sub IndicatorTest()
    Dim aver
    Dim dev

    aver = Average(Close, 10)
    dev = StdDev(Close, 10)

    Plot1(aver)
    Plot2(aver + dev)
    Plot3(aver - dev)
    If Plot1Ago(0) > Plot1Ago(5) Then BarColor(0)=vbBlue
End Sub

That's not really what I'm after. It works on prior bars, when I just want to work with the current bar, and requires that the raw plot and derived plots both be in the same piece of code.

What I want to be able to do is make my code as generic as possible. So, plot A exists in function A while plot B exists as function B which is a fairly generic task type function - to do Y and Z to input X.

The separation helps with reuseability and elimination of code bloat. I suspect that what I want to do isn't possible. Is that correct?

Regards,

Dave

One last thing to try is global variables, GValueXX. If that does not work then I don't think it's possible.

Question , why can't you write your indicator calculations as functions, call them in Indicator "B" as well as in Indicator "A"

It's graphical rather than programmatic control I'm looking for. At times, manual slicing and dicing is the only way to gain insight. that requires flexibility and control...

 
Regards,

Dave