Useful "Buffers explorer" indicator find :)

[CPxiom]

Found a useful indicator for fxdreema users, called Buffers explorer.
We can see buffers for chosen indicator, in separate subwindow.

I find it very useful, thought to share.

Buffers explorer.mq4

[l'andorrà]

Interesting. I will take a look on it.

[paragorundu]

Hello @CPxiom ,

I've checked the indicator, it is very useful. Formarly I was creating EAs to read buffer values but this is a better solution.

Indicator also draws lines using past values which provides a good picture. That's the most I like.

Thanks for sharing.

Regards.

[trader.philipps]

@paragorundu yepp, just a pity that it's limited to 3 buffers.

[CPxiom]

@paragorundu , @trader-philipps ... This indicator is just to see what buffer does what. You still have to make the EA read the buffers of the original indicator... Or maybe I misinterpret what you say.
I usually go with one buffer at a time, where in doubt, to see the buffer I look for.

[trader.philipps]

@cpxiom Yes, the intention of the indicator is to monitor 3 buffers from a named indicator and display their numeric values as a line in the indicator window!

However, there are indicators that have their buffers not named and you need to guess what each of them mean. Further some indicators have more than 3 buffers and you need to handle the monitoring several times.
Furthermore some buffers are only filled with a value, when a special condition is met. If it's not met, the value is empty.

So my comment just stated that it is a pity that you can only specify 3 buffers to display. I'd wish that the indicator would auto-discover the buffers and display them.

[CPxiom]

@trader-philipps Yes, you're right
@paragorundu wrote that "Formarly I was creating EAs to read buffer values but this is a better solution" so I thought the intention was to use the buffer values from this indicator to create an EA..

I looked at the indicator code and it was really easy to modify. I've put here 10 buffers. If more needed, let me know. I'm not a programmer, just learning...
Didn't test this, but it should work. Buffers explorer.mq4

[paragorundu]

@cpxiom yes you are right. But to see which buffer provides what information I was using that method

BTW, thanks for the increased buffer version of the indicator

[CaesarCrypto]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to add an .ex4 indicator to my system, so I can't see the code to determine the buffers. Then I found this thread and I downloaded this buffers explorer indi but it doesn't seem to work for me.
It open an empty indicator window nothing more as you can see in the image below.

These are my settings:

The indicator's filename is "Trend direction + force index - smoothed 4_3"

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!

[CPxiom]

@caesarcrypto When you load the ex4 indicator, check the colors tab.
Those are the displayed buffers.
This indicator is useful when same color is assigned to more than one buffer, and so on. It should display the buffer with gray line. If nothing is shown, it is possible that it is empty value.
Proceed to the next buffer. Instead of buffer 0, write 1, then 2, etc... -1 means it should not track buffer there.
Otherwise, everything looks ok, as how you did.