Lookback Days and Counting

[bamafamily333]

Good morning all,
I know I am probably simply overlooking something, but it has been bugging me and I cant wrap my head around it.....
I understand the basic of ToS coding and can usually code my way to what I want with a lot of the help from the great coders on this forum, but I think I may be missing something very simple.....

Lets say I take a simple Pivot indicator and set the timeframe to 5min and the Aggregation period to 4 days.
how come the last aggregation is #1 in the 4 day aggregation (Yellow) and not #4 (Red)
I would think that the aggregation would 'roll' so the the current day is the 4th day?
I know I am just missing something very simple....thx

 

[Joshua]

If it is referencing it by Period = AggregationPeriod.FOUR_DAYS then it will correspond to however the platform decides to delineate four day periods. This aggregate is quite awkward. Who is to say which four days are the correct four days?

Aggregations are driven by milliseconds, using a constant tally starting Jan 1st 1970 GMT. If I had to guess, I would say that a new four day bar will open every open every 345,600,000 milliseconds starting from that point. Or perhaps it starts from the left edge of the chart, or something like that. Either way, It does not "roll" as as you mentioned, nor is it supposed to.

You would need to write a script to capture the last four days of data rather than simply referencing the four day candles.

 

[dugafish]

Is it possible to count the number of bars (e.g. days for daily chart ) between oscillator troughs and peaks and have those numbers displayed on the actual oscillator chart?
Say for example a simple oscillator like RSI, MACD, or Stochastics? Any Oscillator.