Color Coding Timelines on 5 Minutes Charts

[PaulS]

ToS allows you to identify Pre-Market and Post-Market activity on the charts by greying out those times. Does anybody know of a way to grey out times within normal market hours? I am on the west coast, would like the ability to possibly grey out east coast lunch hour, maybe power hour at the end of the day. or even the hours between the opening and ending hour of the day.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[halcyonguy]

ToS allows you to identify Pre-Market and Post-Market activity on the charts by greying out those times. Does anybody know of a way to grey out times within normal market hours? I am on the west coast, would like the ability to possibly grey out east coast lunch hour, maybe power hour at the end of the day. or even the hours between the opening and ending hour of the day.

Any help would be appreciated.

there are a few studies on here where if the current bar is between 2 times, to determine to do something.

this uses just 2 dates. the times would need to be added in.
https://usethinkscript.com/threads/shade-area-between-2-dates.11157/#post-97635

uses start and stop time to define a period
https://usethinkscript.com/threads/...itical-and-horizontal-lines.11440/#post-99585


Here is one that I made, to identify high and low, between 2 times during a day.
https://usethinkscript.com/threads/average-daily-range-indicator-for-thinkorswim.244/#post-66296

 

[PaulS]

Thanks but I am not looking at highs or lows, just want to identify a time frame (for example) during the day, say between 9:00am and 10:00am that the chart will be shaded similar to aftermarket (Pre and Post market shaded on chart). I am a scalper so as I determine the time frames where I am the most productive or least productive, I'd like to grey those areas so I can easily determine my actions and non-actions. I know I can just look at the clock but I guess I am just looking at spoiling myself by having the chart tell me.

 

[halcyonguy]

Thanks but I am not looking at highs or lows, just want to identify a time frame (for example) during the day, say between 9:00am and 10:00am that the chart will be shaded similar to aftermarket (Pre and Post market shaded on chart). I am a scalper so as I determine the time frames where I am the most productive or least productive, I'd like to grey those areas so I can easily determine my actions and non-actions. I know I can just look at the clock but I guess I am just looking at spoiling myself by having the chart tell me.

sorry, i am currently away from my computer and can just look up links and make simple codes, on my cell.

did you look at those links?
the first 2 were enough to put something together.

the 3rd link will shade an area between 2 times. sure , it's longer than needed for your purpose, but you could remove extra codes.


the last line , in the 3rd link, could be changed from this...
shades from low to high,

AddCloud(hiline2, loline2, GlobalColor( "shade1" ), GlobalColor( "shade1" ) );

to this,
to shade from bottom of chart to the top

AddCloud(
double.negative_infinity,
double.positive_infinity,
, GlobalColor( "shade1" ), GlobalColor( "shade1" ) );

 

[PaulS]

sorry, i am currently away from my computer and can just look up links and make simple codes, on my cell.

did you look at those links?
the first 2 were enough to put something together.

the 3rd link will shade an area between 2 times. sure , it's longer than needed for your purpose, but you could remove extra codes.


the last line , in the 3rd link, could be changed from this...
shades from low to high,

AddCloud(hiline2, loline2, GlobalColor( "shade1" ), GlobalColor( "shade1" ) );

to this,
to shade from bottom of chart to the top

AddCloud(
double.negative_infinity,
double.positive_infinity,
, GlobalColor( "shade1" ), GlobalColor( "shade1" ) );

I downloaded the links, the 3rd linked worked but shades went only to high and low instead of shading between 2 times without high and low. I tried the make the change and kept getting invalid statement, I combined the lines but then it shaded all times, I couldn't figure out how to get it to understand I only wanted to shade between 10:30est to 14:45est. I have to let you know code is like a foreign language to me which I flunked in school. Please don't take time out of your day to recommend an adjustment, I am in no rush, just pleased you are responding. Thank you.

 

[SleepyZ]

I downloaded the links, the 3rd linked worked but shades went only to high and low instead of shading between 2 times without high and low. I tried the make the change and kept getting invalid statement, I combined the lines but then it shaded all times, I couldn't figure out how to get it to understand I only wanted to shade between 10:30est to 14:45est. I have to let you know code is like a foreign language to me which I flunked in school. Please don't take time out of your day to recommend an adjustment, I am in no rush, just pleased you are responding. Thank you.

This is intended to "gray" the area between the 1030-1445 est.

def range = SecondsFromTime(1030) >= 0 and SecondsFromTime(1445) <= 0;
AddCloud(if  range
         then Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY
         else Double.NaN,
         Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY,
         Color.GRAY, Color.GRAY);

 

[PaulS]

This is intended to "gray" the area between the 1030-1445 est.

Perfect. Thank you.