For back-testing: true close displayed when hovering over Heiken Ashi candle

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Greetings! Not sure how to go about this but would like ability to hover on any Heiken Ashi candle on a chart to have the true close price displayed. For backtesting, this would be helpful vs toggling between HA chart and standard candle chart. Didn't see anything on the forums that addresses this directly, but I may have missed something. Any ideas or solutions would be appreciated. Thanks! =A=
 
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Greetings! Not sure how to go about this but would like ability to hover on any Heiken Ashi candle on a chart to have the true close price displayed. For backtesting, this would be helpful vs toggling between HA chart and standard candle chart. Didn't see anything on the forums that addresses this directly, but I may have missed something. Any ideas or solutions would be appreciated. Thanks! =A=

Here is one workaround for this.

Create a new study with the following code.
Name it Standard_Close.
Choose a color that is not too visible on the chart.
Move the study to be the uppermost of all studies in the upper panel.

Then when you hover over you heikin ashi candle, look at the area circled in the image below to see...
Greetings! Not sure how to go about this but would like ability to hover on any Heiken Ashi candle on a chart to have the true close price displayed. For backtesting, this would be helpful vs toggling between HA chart and standard candle chart. Didn't see anything on the forums that addresses this directly, but I may have missed something. Any ideas or solutions would be appreciated. Thanks! =A=

Here is one workaround for this.

Create a new study with the following code.
Name it Standard_Close.
Choose a color that is not too visible on the chart.
Move the study to be the uppermost of all studies in the upper panel.

Then when you hover over you heikin ashi candle, look at the area circled in the image below to see the standard candle close. It shows the HA close as 13.72 and the standard candle close as 13.69

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Ruby:
plot Data = close;
data.setpaintingStrategy(paintingStrategy.POINTS);
data.setdefaultColor(color.gray);
 
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Thank you! This works great for back testing. I went with magenta so that data stands out during back testing. For trading I'll just turn the show plot off. Great solution, appreciate your response. =A=
 
Here is one workaround for this.

Create a new study with the following code.
Name it Standard_Close.
Choose a color that is not too visible on the chart.
Move the study to be the uppermost of all studies in the upper panel.

Then when you hover over you heikin ashi candle, look at the area circled in the image below to see the standard candle close. It shows the HA close as 13.72 and the standard candle close as 13.69
Would it make sense to create a label that shows the HA close, Real Close and the difference so you can see it on the chart directly?
 

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