Forex Tester 5 Forum

To make trading decisions you need to get an information about current price and previous prices for different timeframes.

Right after entering to the GetSingleTick function you have next functions to get information about currency that changed:

Bid() - Current Bid price for the currency that changed

Ask() - Current Ask price for the currency that changed

Symbol() - Currency name ('EURUSD', 'USDCAD', etc)

Digits() - Digits after point in price (2 for USDJPY, 4 for EURUSD, ...)

Point() - Minimum point for the price (0.01 for USDJPY, 0.0001 for EURUSD, ...)



Forex Tester provides access to information about bars with next functions:

Open(index) - Get an Open value of a bar by its index

High(index) - Get a High value of a bar by its index

Low(index) - Get a Low value of a bar by its index

Close(index) - Get a Close value of a bar by its index

Volume(index) - Get a Volume of a bar by its index

Time(index) - Get a Time of a bar by its index

Bars() - Get number of available bars (defines how big index value you can use to address a bar, it will be 0..Bars() - 1 range for an index)

Important: All these functions are valid only after SetCurrencyAndTimeframe procedure call. This procedure defines currency and timeframe for current moment.



How to enumerate bars. Bars are numbered from right to left and from 0 to Bars - 1. So the last bar has index 0, when the new bar created it receives index 0 and previous bar gets index 1 and so on.

There is another set of functions that do not require previous call of SetCurrencyAndTimeframe:

iOpen(Symbol, Timeframe, index) - Get an Open value of a bar by its Symbol, Timeframe and index.

iHigh(Symbol, Timeframe, index) - Get a High value of a bar by its Symbol, Timeframe and index.

iLow(Symbol, Timeframe, index) - Get a Low value of a bar by its Symbol, Timeframe and index.

iClose(Symbol, Timeframe, index) - Get a Close value of a bar by its Symbol, Timeframe and index.

iVolume(Symbol, Timeframe, index) - Get a Volume of a bar by its Symbol, Timeframe and index.

iTime(Symbol, Timeframe, index) - Get a Time of a bar by its Symbol, Timeframe and index.

iBars(Symbol, Timeframe) - Get number of available bars for selected Symbol and Timeframe (defines how big index value you can use to address a bar, it will be 0..iBars(Symbol, Timeframe) - 1 range for an index)

These functions do the same job like functions described above, just they do not require call of SetCurrencyAndTimeframe and could be used in some expressions with mixed currencies and timeframes:

Hi! Terranin,

Many thanks for your nice lecture.
I have one question.
Index number of the left bar of middle chart is 34 and that of the bottom is 35.
Could you show me the reason why index number of those isn't 33 ?

Hello,

We mean, that the bar with index=33 on first screenshot is the bar with index=34 on second screenshot and it is the bar with index=35 on third screenshot. Sorry for the inaccurate screenshots.

Hello,

I got it.
Thanks for quick response.