Market Profile

[Enivid]

Discuss Market Profile indicator in this thread. The indicator displays daily market profiles and is freely available for MT4 and MT5. You can ask any questions about this indicator here.

[TheGMan]

Dear Admin

1st I would like to say I love the Market Profile indicator!

Are you the Author/Coder of this indicator?

If you are... may I ask a favor of you? Could you somehow tweak the code so that I can draw a rectangle box on my chart that does not disappear when I change time frames? I understand that the current code deletes the rectangle boxes.

This would be of great help to me.

Thanks again Enivid GREAT Job here!
G

[Enivid]

Yes, I am the coder of this indicator (not the author because Market Profile indicator was created by J. Peter Steidlmayer before I was born).

You can easily tweak the indicator to remove object deletion simply by removing one line of code from it.

For MQL4, find and remove:

ObjectsDeleteAll(0, OBJ_RECTANGLE);

For MQL5, find and remove:

ObjectsDeleteAll(0, 0, OBJ_RECTANGLE);

But the result won't be very good, since the objects just won't fit on a larger timescale. But you can try it if you think that you need it.

[TheGMan]

Thanks Envid!

That worked fine for what I wanted it to do. That is... to go to a higher time frame so I could see more real estate on the chart & I could then draw some rectangle areas of previous supply & demand & bring the rectangle area forward to the current time with out them disappearing.

The original "ValueArea" rectangle seems to stay in tack so all is good.

Thanks again!
G

[Enivid]

No problem. Do you use this indicator for trading?

[TheGMan]

Well to be honest with you Envid... an associate of mine passed this indicator my way just the other day & I like what I see. So We are going to give it a go this week. I'll keep ya posted as to my results.

PS - I like your site & forum... nice job!
G

[leverage]

Would like to talk to you about the Mkt Profile indicator you coded. I am using it now and would like to make it better. If you have a minute please get back to me, we can chat over skype if possible.

T

[Enivid]

Please ask all the questions related to Market Profile indicator here.

[forexdutchy]

Hi Enivid,

Great indicator, thanks! I was just wondering if it would be possible to ad a starting time for the profile. Because now its plotting the profile for 24h starting from 0:00 in mt4.

I tried to change the settings of the indicator but nothing changed in starting time.

Wouldn't it be more logical to set the starting time of the profile at 08:00 European time? Just thinking out loud here....

[Jedster]

Hi Envid,

This is a great indicator, so thanks for that. I've been researching recently use of the market profile. There is a great article here on how to use market profile:

http://www.cmegroup.com/education/in...t-profile.html

One of the techniques is to separate the data into periods of bell curves, rather than just splitting into fixed timeframes, such as a daily charts. To do this, we would need to use a wider timescale to allow the market profile to be drawn for several months (in the case in the above video, 6-18 month periods appear to be common). This is then used to establish high and low usage areas which is where the market moves to.

Would you be able to modify the indicator to cope with this? It could operate in two modes, daily mode (as is now) or if a bar count was specified in an optional parameter, the market profile would be drawn for that many bars. So to get a 90 day profile on 1H chart, set the new optional parameter to 2160 (90 * 24). It would then allow the market profile to be drawn for any custom period?

Cheers

Jedster