Chheda: for ex. ExtFml("ForumDll.weekly",rsi(c,14)) can plot weekly rsi on intraday or daily time frame or ExtFml("ForumDll.monthly",Fml( "My Formula")) can plot my formula for monthly periodicity on intraday daily or weekly charts . Patrick: I think that would be great, I will definitely work on this ;) Here is my idea : ExtFml("ForumDLL.Periodicity",Data Array, periodicity) Alphateam: I'd like a Range Tool to find stocks that are trading in a sideways range. The tool should have the following functions: Search & report stocks in a sideways range. Sort ranging stocks by length of time in range. Sort ranging stocks by % price range. A tolerance % parameter (and standard deviation) to allow prices to whipsaw briefly out of range. Rank stocks based on the formula "% price range" X "length of time in range" - so long periods with a big price range could be found easily. Patrick: I don't understand this ... Sorry ... If I understood the purpose and how it could be used/useful I would look at it again. Most of the suggestions are too subjective and it looks like it is too much work and it will not help a lot of MS users ... Bearishbull: Hehe you wonder why I need this? I'm subscribed to a smsgateway. I send a msg to an url (something like www.mygateway.com/yougot a longsignal, sendto+31642115544 blablabla) And then if I have an expert alert I can recieve the alert on my mobile phone without a modem.. If it's not to hard to figure this out then I appreciate it if that function can also be in the next dll Patrick: .... Weird ... I don't think I'm capable to do that ( the part where I use your modem to call your cell phone etc ... :roll: ) ... But interresting idea ... I will keep this in mind and think about it. The writing variable to a text file should be easy ... Would it be enough? Patrick :mrgreen:

Hi Patrick , One more thing we can add in this development Dll for price style and colors For example we can display indicator in line ,Histogram , invisible , Doted line , Bar chart , Candle or PnF ect. format it may be useful in plotting daily , weekly and / or monthly charts in one chart sheet and also useful to develop HeiKin-AsHi or similar type of charts By different Color code we can plot any indicator in different colors when it is in Up Down or Natural mode with single indicator . Such development can strengthen and widen power of Metastock formula Language Thanks and Regards Harish Chheda

I'm sure that everyone will agree with me that Patrick really is a rock star. 8:-) However, with that said, the wish list isn't supossed to be 'Patrick's alternate email address"! It is a list of ideas that ANY PROGRAMMER might choose to implement... or ignore. The wish list concept was never intended to mean 'this is where I place my custom orders'. I think it should be understood that most of the items on any wish list will not be implemented. That way, there is no pressure on anyone secondary to unrealistic expectations. As far as previous version capabilities go, with few exceptions, the programmers will be coding for the current platform. The idea is to have the code compatible with the next generation of MS, not those of yesteryear.

Patrick The ForumDll it's a great utility without question, but is limited to custom indicators, explorers and experts. Wouldn't be a good feature to provide support for the System Tester as well with optimization parameters? For example the current std. VarMOV function below: - ExtFml("ForumDll.VarMOV", DataArray, Periods, Method) to accept this form: - ExtFml("ForumDll.VarMOV", DataArray, OPT1, OPT2) I tried ASI.dll that works this way, but taskes 10 times longer to simulate than MS built-in functions. Please disregard this request if there is a way that supports my requested feature and I have overlooked it. Regards Guara

Patrick This is what happens: 1) In the System Tester I used the following code:

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MAType:=OPT1; MMAType:=OPT2; MAPeriods:=OPT3; MMAPeriods:=OPT4; MA:= If(MAType=1,ExtFml("ForumDll.VarMOV",C,MAPeriods,S), If(MAType=2,ExtFml("ForumDll.VarMOV",C,MAPeriods,E), ExtFml("ForumDll.VarMOV",C,MAPeriods,W))); MMA:= If(MMAType=1,ExtFml("ForumDll.VarMOV",MA,MMAPeriods,S), If(MMAType=2,ExtFml("ForumDll.VarMOV",MA,MMAPeriods,E), ExtFml("ForumDll.VarMOV",MA,MMAPeriods,W))); Trend:= If(MA>MMA,1, If(MA<MMA,-1,0)); Buy:=If(Trend=1 AND Ref(Trend,-1)<1,1,0); Buy;

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Similar for the Sell signal;

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This is crashing the System Tester and the whole MS application (when I hit the "Cancell Simulation" button after 1 min while nothing happened.) When I used the same formulas for the Expert (obviously the OPT variables were replaced with new ones that refered to integers) it worked OK, but it takes much longer to process the expert signals than when I use the regular Mov() functions. I used also the same format for Trend definition (Trend Tab in System Tester.): Trend:=If(MA>MMA,1,0); {for Bullish} Trend:=If(MA<MMA,1,0); {for Bearish} Isn't the DLL supposed to perform the same MS functions implemented as a variable parameter call faster? Any comment will be very much appreciated it. Regards Guara