NOTE: i have noticed that the showbars - showme indicators may sometimes turn themselves off end of day - the times that i have noticed this is IF i restart the program again when the market is closed. IF this happens ~ format analysis techniques AND then turn the status off of the indicator AND then turn the status back on [OR simply delete your indicator and re-apply it IF for some reason it doesn't plot again].

IF you do NOT set up this chart-indicator you will not be able to plot your ttc_dll indicators. Every symbol that you will want for data on another chart will need a SaveTicks chart. Below you will see setups for ticki AND premium ~ again each of these will need its own SaveTicks.

NOTE: with the ts8 version of tradestation - they have made some change in the way ticki is being stored in their cache AND although these indicators work fine realtime - their values aren't stored to show past data which is something that i hope will be able to be fixed to the way it was.

This indicator goes on the source chart ~ that is the chart containing data you want to send to Merlin.DLL so that the data can then be displayed on other tick charts. Setup your data as a 1 tick chart of the source symbol ~ in this case TradeStation 2000i = $ticki - TradeStation 8.x = $tiki. The indicator will plot as one line which simply shows the actual time of each tick accurate to 2/10 of a second in the format hhmmssd. 1502303 translates as15:02:30.0 = 3pm 2minutes 30.0 seconds.

ttc_Ticki-SM

User Inputs

Symb = the symbol that was used to create your source chart which is "$Ticki" for all Ticki indicators for TradeStation 2000i ~ TradeStation 8 users will have to change this to "$Tiki". NOTE: be sure not to erase the " " marks.

HiTrigger - LoTrigger = the Ticki extreme that you want to plot ~ +/- 22 is the default.

ChannelLength = a number intended to correlate to the ttDC ttRRC indicators. IF you want the ticki extreme to plot on top of the channel THEN change this to 9.

Placement = number of ticks above/below the price bar where the Ticki extreme will plot ~ 2 ticks is the default

instead of using showme dots on the chart to indicate a ticki extreme - the bars may be painted green OR red basis the your ticki extreme input.

additional information ~ real time premium data AND 2 levels of ticki data. looking at the chart on the below right ~ i think we got a very clear idea of the additional sell program pressure from the ticki high-resistance reject.

Placement - Placement2 = number of ticks above/below the price bar where the showme will plot ~ these need to be staggered in order to see them all ~ 1 2 3 ticks is the default.

since tradestation does not allow more then 4 things to be plotted in an indicator i have provided 2 different chart setups for the ticki bars. ttc_ShowBars will plot the ticki bars AND the horizontal extreme lines BUT will not show you the last price on the ticki bar ~ ttc_ShowBars-C will plot the ticki bars AND show the last price on the ticki bar HOWEVER to show the horizontal extreme lines you will have to add the ttTicki2 indicator.

one additional ttc_ShowBars study paints the bars red-green basis the ticki low/high input AND plots horizontal lines at the same input value

ttc_SaveTicks	indicator
ttc_SsaveTicks	indicator
ttc_ShowBars	indicator
ttc_ShowBars-C	indicator
ttc_ShowBars-PB	indicator
ttc_TickiX	indicator
ttc_PremX	indicator
ttc_Ticki-SM	showme
ttc_Ticki-SM2	showme
ttc_Prem-SM	showme
ttc_Ticki-PB	paintbar
ttc_Prem-PB	paintbar
ttValidUser	function
LastBarOnChart	function
LastCalcDate	function
LastCalcTime	function