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Recently I have been fiddling around with the 'watchlist'-functionality again.
Through some Java-kungfu, I learned that the watchlist only takes the last 137 bars into account, regardless of the timeframe.
By that I mean that if I create a watchlist-column with a BarSize of '1 min', and I add that column to the watchlist, only 137 bars will be taken into account:
Sadly, that is not good enough. I have several Studies where important events are rare, happened over 137 bars ago in the past, but the results are still of major importance right now.
Let's take the example of 'OrderBlocks':
on a 'regular chart, they are drawn waaaaay back into the past:
But my watchlist-column will stay 'empty' for this particular instrument, because the watchlist only 'looks back' 137 bars and does not 'see' that OB.This means I / we have no way of knowing price is flirting with that OB at the moment.
I also noticed that adding this in the code only has an effect on 'regular' charts, not on the watchlist (stays stubbornly at 137):
So here's my question:
Can we increase the number of 'lookback'-bars in the watchlist ? Preferably only for one column, and not the entire watchlist (CPU lives matter too
)
(I think it is hard-coded somewhere, so no. Will mail MW-support as well with the friendly request to look into this, add perhaps it as a 'feature request')
Through some Java-kungfu, I learned that the watchlist only takes the last 137 bars into account, regardless of the timeframe.
By that I mean that if I create a watchlist-column with a BarSize of '1 min', and I add that column to the watchlist, only 137 bars will be taken into account:
Sadly, that is not good enough. I have several Studies where important events are rare, happened over 137 bars ago in the past, but the results are still of major importance right now.
Let's take the example of 'OrderBlocks':
on a 'regular chart, they are drawn waaaaay back into the past:
But my watchlist-column will stay 'empty' for this particular instrument, because the watchlist only 'looks back' 137 bars and does not 'see' that OB.This means I / we have no way of knowing price is flirting with that OB at the moment.
I also noticed that adding this in the code only has an effect on 'regular' charts, not on the watchlist (stays stubbornly at 137):
So here's my question:
Can we increase the number of 'lookback'-bars in the watchlist ? Preferably only for one column, and not the entire watchlist (CPU lives matter too
)(I think it is hard-coded somewhere, so no. Will mail MW-support as well with the friendly request to look into this, add perhaps it as a 'feature request')
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