Changing background color

[Xiaoxi]

Hi,

I'm trying to come up with an indicator that will change the background color when a moving average crosses another, then changing back to default once the cross is made. For example @10:05, 5min 20SMA crosses above 50SMA, and the background turns green. Then @10:10, the background goes back to the default color. This is what I have so far, can't figure out how to do the second part of the indicator, where the color goes back to default. Please help!! Thank you.

input aggregationPeriod = AggregationPeriod.DAY;
input FirstMA = 20;
input SecondMA = 50;
input averageType = AverageType.SIMPLE;

def c = close(period = aggregationPeriod);
def ma1 = MovingAverage(averageType, c, FirstMA);
def ma2 = MovingAverage(averageType, c, SecondMA);
def Up = ma1 > ma2;
def Down = ma1 < ma2;

AssignBackgroundColor(if Up then (color.green) else if Down then (color.red) else Color.CURRENT);

DefineGlobalColor("Up", Color.LIME);
DefineGlobalColor("Down", Color.DARK_RED);
DefineGlobalColor("default", Color.CURRENT);

 

[halcyonguy]

Hi,

I'm trying to come up with an indicator that will change the background color when a moving average crosses another, then changing back to default once the cross is made. For example @10:05, 5min 20SMA crosses above 50SMA, and the background turns green. Then @10:10, the background goes back to the default color. This is what I have so far, can't figure out how to do the second part of the indicator, where the color goes back to default. Please help!! Thank you.

input aggregationPeriod = AggregationPeriod.DAY;
input FirstMA = 20;
input SecondMA = 50;
input averageType = AverageType.SIMPLE;

def c = close(period = aggregationPeriod);
def ma1 = MovingAverage(averageType, c, FirstMA);
def ma2 = MovingAverage(averageType, c, SecondMA);
def Up = ma1 > ma2;
def Down = ma1 < ma2;

AssignBackgroundColor(if Up then (color.green) else if Down then (color.red) else Color.CURRENT);

DefineGlobalColor("Up", Color.LIME);
DefineGlobalColor("Down", Color.DARK_RED);
DefineGlobalColor("default", Color.CURRENT);

your words don't match your code.
you say 5 min average, but code a daily average?
what do you really want?
forget using 2nd agg, and trigger a color just on the condition. then it will revert back to default color on next bar.