[dhelmin]

Hi:
Does anyone know if there is a way to shade in the area between upper/lower Bollinger Bands as shown in attached pic?

Thanks!

[Tams]

not with EasyLanguage.

:-(

[zdo]

see solidus's posts re shading etc on TS forums... it can be done...

[dhelmin]

Thanks ZDO. I think I'm missing something. The only thing I see is where he talks about paintbar colors. Is this what you are talking about?

Variables:
barColorText("White");

Condition1 = Close > Close[1];
Condition2 = Close < Close[1];
Condition3 = Close = Close[1];

If Condition1 then barColorText = "Green"
else if Condition2 then barColorText = "Red"
else if Condition3 then barColorText = "Yellow";

Plot1(barColorText, "Bar Color");

[Tams]

you can mimic painting the background by layering a thick bar behind the price bars as background color.

give this a try:
set the first 2 plots as "bar high" and "bar low".

inputs:
	BollingerPrice( Close ),
	TestPriceUBand( Close ),
	TestPriceLBand( Close ),
	Length( 20 ),
	NumDevsUp( 2 ),
	NumDevsDn( -2 ),
	Displace( 0 ) ;

variables:
	var0( 0 ),
	var1( 0 ),
	var2( 0 ),
	var3( 0 ) ;

var0 = AverageFC( BollingerPrice, Length ) ;
var1 = StandardDev( BollingerPrice, Length, 1 ) ;
var3 = var0 + NumDevsUp * var1 ;
var2 = var0 + NumDevsDn * var1 ;

condition1 = Displace >= 0 or CurrentBar > AbsValue( Displace ) ;
if condition1 then 
	begin
	Plot1[Displace]( var3, "bar high" ) ;
	Plot2[Displace]( var2, "bar low" ) ;
	Plot4[Displace]( var3, "UpperBand" ) ;
	Plot5[Displace]( var2, "LowerBand" ) ;
	Plot6[Displace]( var0, "MidLine" ) ;

	                  
	if Displace <= 0 then
		begin
		condition1 = TestPriceLBand crosses over var2 ;
		if condition1 then
			Alert( "Price crossing over lower price band" ) 
		else 
		begin 
		condition1 = TestPriceUBand crosses under var3 ;
		if condition1 then
			Alert( "Price crossing under upper price band" ) ;
		end;
		end ;
	end ;

[dhelmin]

Thats exactly what I want to do for tradestation. Thank you!

I made an indicator with your code and on inputs typed high on testpriceUband and low on testpriceLband. It wouldn't accept bar high.

On the chart it just shows a regular Bollinger Band and doesn't show any shading. Any thoughts? thank you for your help!

[Tams]

you have to set these 2 plots as "bar high" and "bar low"

Plot1[Displace]( var3, "bar high" ) ; <--- set this as bar high
Plot2[Displace]( var2, "bar low" ) ; <--- set this as bar low


if you go to Format Study, you will see that I have entered the description of the 2 plots as "bar high" and "bar low".

[dhelmin]

I think I'm missing the part where you enter "bar high" "bar low". Under edit Easy Language its already there just as I copied from your code.