Is there a way or a global variable where I can find the number of bars displayed in the chart. I want to display all the pivot point lines R3 to S1, but only those that are relevant to the bars displayed. Otherwise the chart usually gets compressed too much on the vertical axis. Thank you for helping.

Thanks, But this is not what I am looking for. This counts the total number of bars loaded. Not the number of bars displayed in the chart a certain moment in time. The display of the pivot levels should be adapted to the visible bars in the chart, not the total number of bars loaded.

Sylvestro..........was wondering if you had ever found a solution for this as I was looking for the same?

Thanks Wabbit, that was useful. I was plotting daily pivot levels on 60 min charts but to avoid the screen looking compressed I only wanted the data from the present pivot levels to be displayed. I looked at your code from http://forum.equis.com/f...60/ShowThread.aspx#35760 and the LastValue function is fine for my purpose. Although the last value is displayed across the entire screen there is no screen compression.

Thanks again Wabbit, I've plotted your suggestion and that's even better but with one drawback for me. My code for daily pivots on an intraday 60 min timeframe is calculated on the H,L and C from 10.00pm to 10.00.pm following the times for banks resetting their servers. Is there any way that my indicator can be displayed for only the past day starting from 10pm rather than midnight or as a compromise for the past two days?

created just about every sqiggley line imaginable and reread formula primer and the best I can do is plotting from midnight rather than 10 pm......must be something simple. Any chance you might put me out of my misery?

My 'best attempt' is superceeded by "rayhhc" of Yahoo Metastock Group;

The following code does a neat job of plotting my indicator over the last 24 bars which is fine for my 1 hour chart but of course another drawdack would be if I move it down to a half hour chart the indicator covers only the last 12 hours. The code to plot the indicator from 10.00pm rather than rely on the number of bars is what escapes me. I've a feeling that Henry alluded to this in his post on Jacksons pivots elsewhere in the Forum, if I can take it apart. Anyway here is "rayhhc" code which I have only altered descriptions so as not to confuse with names of pivot levels.

ind:={my indicator};

b:=LastValue(Cum(1)-1)=Cum(1);

vw:=ValueWhen(1,b,ind);

lv:=LastValue(vw);

b1:=LastValue(Cum(1)-24)=Cum(1);

{plot}

ValueWhen(1,b1,lv);

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Thanks Wabbit, I'll try this this evening and get back to you.