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[User Discussion] - Colour Bar study

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[2014-09-24 09:41:36]
User96105 - Posts: 113
I’d like to be able to colour the bars to show small orders, where the average trade size within that bar is, say, less than 5 contracts, and then a different colour to show large trades where the average trade size is, say, more than 50 contracts.

Is this possible using one of the standard colour bar studies?

Thanks

[2014-09-24 09:44:31]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
No. Quickly thinking about this, it seems rather involved to accomplish.

It would require custom programming and that is not within the scope of our support.
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[2014-09-24 11:56:42]
User96105 - Posts: 113
Okay thanks ~ I'll have a go to see if I can do this with a spreadsheet study.
[2014-10-08 02:17:21]
Shane - Posts: 31
This is not that difficult to do. Average trade size is easy to calculate using a tick chart (SC calls it a "number of trades per bar" chart). Each bar is a fixed number of trades you define, say 1000 as an example.

Add a volume study. Your formula is then: volume / 1000. This is the average trade size.

If you want to display this value on some other kind of chart, you use study/price overlay to move it to the target chart and then a color bar by alert condition on the target chart that references the study/price overlay study.

I do this now and display average trade size above a certain threshold on range bar charts.

regards,
shane

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