https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/43
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How to call indicators in MQL5
- 2010.03.12
- KlimMalgin
- www.mql5.com
With new version of MQL programming language available not only the approach of dealing with indicators have changed, but there are also new ways of how to create indicators. Furthermore, you have additional flexibility working with indicator's buffers - now you can specify the desired direction of indexing and get exactly as many indicator's values as you want. This article explains the basic methods of calling indicators and retrieving data from the indicator's buffers.
Thanks!
I put a simple example at the bottom of the article in the comments.
Please tell me if it's wrong and I'll amend it.
Much appreciated.
Figured it out...
The OnInit() code initializes the indicator.
Then the OnTick() calls it. The two bits of code need to be separate.
I put an example in the comments section on that post (https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/43)
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How to call indicators in MQL5
- 2010.03.12
- KlimMalgin
- www.mql5.com
With new version of MQL programming language available not only the approach of dealing with indicators have changed, but there are also new ways of how to create indicators. Furthermore, you have additional flexibility working with indicator's buffers - now you can specify the desired direction of indexing and get exactly as many indicator's values as you want. This article explains the basic methods of calling indicators and retrieving data from the indicator's buffers.
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Hi,
I'm porting code across from MQL4 to MQL5 and am battling on what I thought would be quite simple.
I want to work out the moving average.
In MQL4 it was:
double movingAverage = iMA(m_symbol, m_timeFrame, period, index, m_maMethod , PRICE_CLOSE, 0);
In MQL 5 we now get:
double firstMA = iMA(Symbol(), PERIOD_H1, maSize, index, MODE_SMA, PRICE_CLOSE);
The help file: https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/indicators/ima
Seems to show how to set the moving average... I'm after the value of the moving average (i.e. the average close is 1.2030) , not it's handle or how to set it.
Please can I example of how to get the moving average.
Thanks