Forget time, watch action
Range Bars are determined for alternate price charting. Unlike the usual time frame chart – where every candle represents a fixed time interval – the goal is to ignore time and to display price movement using candles with equal heights.
Installation Guide and First Steps
Watch the video to learn how to install and use Range bars.
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Unique Features
What are additional features of Ovo offline generators?
- the generator is an indicator rather than a script or EA, which makes it more comfortable for deployment
- input setting is adjustable from multiple places: from the input dialogue, or from the entry box of an indicator sub-window, or from the offline chart using additional indicators (Omnia Remote, Omnia Auto Range). Settings on the offline chart makes the range switching as flexible as switching between timeframes.
- safe timeframe switching of the feed chart (no need for sacrificing the feed chart for a single timeframe)
- generator can detect and optionally break chart into trading sessions
- generator uses all available timeframes for the initial model, and it is not bound to a single selected timeframe
- when starting up, the indicator selects the chart starting anchor from the user-defined chart candles count
- a single indicator can serve multiple identical offline charts (a single chart ID in multiple windows)
- detects significant drop-outs in feed and rebuilds the offline chart after the feed updates
- displays consistent candle tick volume calibrated to regular timeframes, so you may rely on the tick volume in your analysis and EAs
- guards for a change of the feed server, so it updates the chart if you switch between accounts
- works properly with symbols having MQL unfriendly names (like “EURUSD..”, i.e. trailing double dot in the name)
- reports unexpected time gaps in the MT4 history, reports inconsistencies between symbol timeframes
- excludes phantom (no volume) ticks
- fixes incorrect input for a non-trivial instrument tick size
- can decrease chart refresh rate on demand
- indicator development is still open, you may expect fast fixes for new Metatrader builds
Hi Theo,
I prefer to configure my charts only one time. I would like to close metatrader 4 platform after trading for a few hours. Every time I open metatrader 4, do I have to reload the range bar indicator again to start collecting data from beginning all over or will it update from earlier data and resume from the previous range bar.
Neither of the two. The indicator recalculates all over, but uses previously recorded tick data, so the candlesticks shape is identical like it was in the live session. Only the candlestick chart lenght may be trimmed on the left to fit the initial input settings.
Is it a scripts need to be manually loaded every time MT4 is started, or an indicator who can be left on the charts & will start automatically with MT4 ?
Hello Michel, it is an indicator, so it sticks to the chart until removed.
Sorry, I was taking about the rang bar one !
What am I doing wrong?–When I clicked the download box to get the Original Range Bars, I got a pop-up box that says, “Adobe Reader could not open ‘RangeBar.ex4’ because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged…” I am very much looking forward to your product. Please pardon my general basic computer illiteracy.
Hello Mark, you may try to rightclick the link and use the “Save link as” option to prevent a browser extension opening the download.
Hi Theo
I am running EURUSD; Standard 5M chart; Excellent internet connection; Number of offline candles = 600; I am having issues where ONLY the OVO Range Bar Chart becomes laggy and then just freezes. Would this problem resolve the moment I move from an OVO demo to an OVO paid/licensed account?
Thanks
JS
Hello Jas, there is no difference between trial and licensed use of the indicator, you will encounter the same behaviour. However this behaviour is not typical and you may use the contact form for describing your problem with additional helpful data or screenshots and environment description (versions of Windows, MT4 etc.)
Hello , this is Andy
I am interested in Range Bar code
Does it compile to MT4?
Hello Andy, the product is a compiled indicator for MT4. In case you meant the source code, it is not supplied with the product. In case you meant code for the license, you may proceed to the http://ovo.cz/order-key/ page.
This is Andy again
Thank you for your reply.
I have download the trial version.
Thanks God , it does run smoothly.
Does it mean the range bar.ex4 will run smooth in the life time version ?
Hello Andy, there is only a single version for both trial and licensed period. The license purchase unlocks time restriction.
This is Andy again
I have just have a look to the comment posted by other people
I have got some questions:
1) what is the difference between ” Range Bar ” and Range no Gap Bar” ?
2) what is the best configuration of my PC/ version of MT4 can help your software give the best performance?
3) MT4 will automatically update itself. Can you software compile to the most updated version of MT4 ? or I need to do something ahead?
Million Thanks
1. The former respects the original range bars definition, the latter drops down the 1-tick gap rule.
2. The load caused by the generator alone is constant, but other indicators attached to offline chart might perform better when you keep the offline chart short.
3. You cannot recompile the indicator yourself, but downloading the latest version solves such problems.
regarding to your reply no.3
“”downloading the latest version solves such problem””
Do you mean downloading the latest version of your software ?
If yes ,
do I need to pay again to downloading it ? (given that I have paid for the life license of Range bar already )
or latest version of MT4 ?
Given :
MY PC windows is WINDOW 7
MT4 version is Build 940
Hi,
I would like to buy Range bar generator for forex trading. Could you please advice the price. I see that $45 for 3 months for three user profiles. Is that correct? Does 3 user profile mean 3 computers?
Please advice, if there are any offers. Does buying more than 1 license cost less?
Please advice.
I successfully downloaded the range bar but where can I input the code?
Hello Kazuki,
please enter it into the indicator input entry:
I am a range bar trader who has primarily traded Futures using the NT Platform and have been looking into Forex with the MT4 Platform. This is a wonderful indicator! Thank you! I love it but I do have 1 suggestion you might want to consider:
(1) To the right of the current bar have 2 horizontal lines 1 above and 1 below showing where the current bar will open and close. In addition, I have the price to the right of the horizontal lines.
This is of tremendous help to me as a price action trader. Below is a pic of what I had programmed for my NT Range Bars:
Pic: http://prntscr.com/b9zolm
Hello john, The OmniaRemote has this feature included.
ty Milan I will check it out! Appreciate it.
So awesome!! That is exactly what I needed – ty
Hi
Can I trade from the Range Bar Chart? And can I attach an EA to it and have it function correctly. What does OFFLINE chart mean?
Yes, you may trade and run the EA. The wording “offline chart” stands for a chart, which is not directly maintained by the MT4 feed. You might understand it as “custom”.
Is the auto range software still available? I don’t see the download for it. That would be a very helpful tool.
ooops…found it
Ok, its loaded….but the original feeder chart has big and little bars and fills up new ones while scrolling. And the offline bar has equal sized bars but no new ones are drawing. The USD/JPY has moved about 30 pips and no new bar……hmm.
I’ve watched the video twice but evidently I’m missing something.
Hi I have just purchased you Range Bar indicator, I am using it on Dax index however in the morning when the market opens with a gap up or gap down the gap is shown as a series of green or red range bars is there anyway we can sort this out so that the offline chart shows the real gap and starts the bars from there?
Hello Hos, change the Session parameter either in inputs or by the OmniaRemote GUI.
Thank you sorted out
Hi just downloaded your range bar ea and would love to finally purchase it but using trial in the mean time, it says valid till September 2nd, two questions is this midnight of September 2nd 00:00 or sometime during the day or midnight of September 3rd, 2nd question is with the purchase I can use it for life on any computer right?
The trial time is calculated precisely since the moment of the first indicator use.
The license is lifetime, you may migrate it from a computer to a computer and use it on three computers concurrently.
Hello,
Does anyone have the same issue on Range bar chart?
A part from all benefit of range bar chart, I came a cross with any object when you draw them on the chart, they wont be stay stable and by opening a new candle all the object and trend lines mess up and you have to redraw them again which is really annoying.
Is there any solution for it?
Thnaks
Do not place control points of objects in the area of the blank part of the chart (the future). The scale on the left-hand side is defined by the range bars, while on the right-hand side by the chart timeframe. The time scales are incompatible between those parts.
Thanks a lot, problem solved.
Hi Milan,
I am viveg,i want to purchase the life time key for rangenogap bars.
To make it work do i have to purchase omnio remote key as well ?
Definitively not, it is a free tool, and it optional for running the range bars.
Ok thanks. Range bar cost mentioned 45 us dollar. Do I have to pay anything extra to set up range bar key? . Will the key work for life time?
No additional costs, and lifetime.
Hi, will this work on I pad?
It is for Windows MT4, not sure if the Windows version can run on iPad. More likely not.
very good work. but I think it lacks Heiken ashi to be perfect
Sure, it lacks a lot of optional features, but I prefer keeping things simple for the user as much as possible.
When I use the Range Bar Indicator on an off line chart, my MT4 gets slower and slower.
Is there a way to avoid this?
Regards,
Mikael
I’ve been using your RangeBar_e since Feb 2014. Today it stopped working. The “evaluation as expired” messaged showed up and said version 210.009 is available. What has changed? Did my version expire? Do I need to pay for another license? I love the chart RR charts but now my charts are stalled and trading is suspended. Where do I go from here?
Hello Randy, nice to hear that the historical version is still able to run with the latest builds.
The reason why the license seems expired is probably because your computer OS got upgraded several times, eating the license with upgrades. However the license is lifetime, and it is valid the latest version. Fix the license yourself at License Check & Key Reset page.
I downloaded the No Gap Range Bar to see what is was like. Your site said a 15 day try it out before you buy was available. When I apply the Range Bar I get the message “Expired. Next free period starts in 88 days”. So, how does this work?
Thanks,
Randy
The no-gap version shares the trial and license with the regular version.
Hello,
Does the software populate “phantom” bars when there is a gap in price? Say one bar closes and there is a 10 pip gap up. I am asking for back testing purposes, as I would like to get the most accurate back test possible.
Thanks,
Rod
Hello Rod,
yes, the chart contains the phantoms where expected, you may detect them by zero volume.
For back-testing with the phantoms, you would need to use the Rangebar FXT Builder. The Strategy Tester does not allow the zero volume bars on its own, however the FXT Builder can insert them.
Milan,
I am close to being done developing my trading system and I hope to start selling monthly and yearly software licenses for my forex robot. If it goes well, I plan on referring all of my customers to you. Would it be possible to work out a bulk discount for the people that purchase a robot from me? This is assuming that everything goes well.
Thanks,
Rod
Milan,
Thank you for your quick response. Is there a way to eliminate the phantom bars in order to see just the true price data? That would be very beneficial for me.
Thanks,
Rod
I Milan
Im tradind currently with your tools – range bars and renko-
I ve seen on the net some comments about adaptative range bars or dynamic range bars -range is not fixed, it s varying with volatility, from a minimum to a maximum – it seems to be very interesting- do you have something like that?
Milan,
Can you direct me to that YouTube video that shows how to back test on MT4 with range bars?
Thanks.
Phil
Unfortunately I do not have any video, except the basic one at the FXT Builder page
Hi Milan,
Really greatfull and enjoying the Rangebar product and Omnia for longtime, any chance I can have a chat with you on skype for few minutes ?
Have couple of questiones for you and a buisness opportunity ?
Hello Gili, unfortunately I have not been using Skype. I apologize very much, I prefer the email conversation, because of very limited time in the recent period.
Hi Milan, so sending you a mail to the support/contact us.
I would glad if you can mail me back to confirm you got it please, it’s really important for me.
Also sent you a PM in FF forums, it’s maybe not so clear, so I will rewrite one to the contact form.
Thanks,
Gili
Hi,
Any plans to release in MT5 soon ?
Would love to have your range bars in MT5!
Thanks with much anticipation.
There is intention, but despite it there is still no way how to implement offline charts in MT5. Hopefully they come with some solution in the near future.
Thank you for your quick response.
Let’s hope they accomodate soon as the transition to MT5 has begun.
In your opinion, how much more trading time do we have with the MT4 platform?
Thanks for all. Best regards.
Hello Max, I guess two more years are quite sure.
Hello , I am Duangthida
I would like to know the different between RENKO chart and RANGE bar chart trading setup.
THX.
Hello,
I need new bar event even if there is gap. eg. I have a 10point high range bar and at new tick the price is higher than 10 point and the indicator draw 2 bar at the same time. I need event about all drew bars. Is it possible?
Many Thanks!
Hello Peter, I am not sure what events you think of. There is no implicit event defined for the new bar in the MT4, however every coder may create his proprietary event on any condition.
Hello,
I need to generate offline Range Bars for different pairs for the last 6 months to test an EA. Which among the scripts can help me achieve the above?
Many Thanks
None of the above. For testing the EA performance you would need the Rangebars FXT Builder.
Hi Milan,
Thanks for the reply. One more quiz. Which indicator will generate the same Range Bars as that test data generated by the Rangebars FXT Builder now on live.
Thanks and Regards
The same range bars on the test chart – exactly as you can see on your live chart – can be achieved by the BackTestHelper. However they won’t be tick based.
Would it be possible to have an alert that notifies when a new range bar is created?
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Hi Milan,
My Range Bar Generator is giving the nessage “Valid till November 7”. Why this is happening? TIA for your answer
BTW, I have recently changed windows 7 for windows 10
Hi,
Please can you advise how to edit the chart update frequency?
You may use the delay_omnia parameter as described here
My Range Bar Generator is giving the nessage “Valid till November 7”. Why this is happening? TIA for your answer. BTW, I have recently changed windows 7 for windows 10
Hi, Is there any way to auto reload the chart when changing the range scale via the Omnia Remote?
Some 3rd party indicators don’t respond to the change and become misaligned until they, or the chart is reloaded.
Thanks
Hello Chris, probably it could be achieved by re-applying the saved template, but it might destroy the expert and indicators settings, I am afraid. It used to work by forcing a timeframe change event, but Metaquotes removed this command as ‘useless’ three years ago, despite my intervention.
Hi Milan, recently I upgrade MT4 to buil 1160, that was a error, because the indicator start freezing, than I needed to wait so much time to load the charts, so I change to build 1090 again in portable mode. Now the indicator are fast. I know that this is not your fault, I just want to send you this information. By the way, I use 3 plataforms of MT4 in my analysis, in each plataform I load 30 charts, with 3 Omnia indicator in 10 of then and it is very fast with build 1090.
Hello Fabio, I am sorry for this unpleasant situation. Fortunately it seems to turn better, Metaquotes already released a beta hot fix without this defect (build 1161, update currently available via Metaquotes feed), and scheduled a public release 1170 for December 20. I decided it was close enough to avoid other temporary solutions. So please take the 1161 automatically when connected to the Metaquotes trading account, or wait till December 20 to download the 1170 update from your broker’s feed.
Hi, I purchased your RangeBar indicator. I realized however that changing the number of candles displayed is very different.
Situation:
Mt4 Account: Same for 2 pcs
Symbol: Us30
Candle Range: 600 points
Number of Candles: 30000
Computer 1
Start the candles on 04/02/2019
Computer 2
Candles start on 12/27/2018
This would affect a possible future strategy. Can I have an explanation?
You very probably do not have identical set of historical data in the two terminal instances for such a long period. Scratch the hst files and run the LoadAllHistory script on both terminals.
And, when your strategy requires such a deep precise history, ensure all M1 through W1 charts cover that period.
hello ovo team,
i wanted to ask when i activate the normal tick volume indicator from mt4 on your range bar indicator, if it shows the volume per range
i have seen many free indicators where they show zero volume in some range bars … the reason for that was cause the range bars volume was also time based
so my question is if your indicator shows per range the real tick volume?
Hello Atilla, it shows the proper tick volume, i.e. tick delta which was added during the bar interval. It will have identical volume sum over the session as any other timeframe chart. Sometimes may happen a price gap – when the gap is wider than the bar range, then the bar has zero tick volume assigned. While the timeframe charts simply skip bars without volume, Range bars chart traverses price gaps with phantom bars.
Hi dear,
Is there any other way to make the payment instead of paypal, i cant use my Master card on paypal
You probably might ask your bank what is wrong, Mastercard is one of the few supported ones by Paypal afaIk. I do not have an option to use other payment processor at the moment, I am sorry.
Hi
Can i use this range bar in iphone?
How should i install it into my iphone?
Thanks
If your iPhone can run terminal.exe, then very probably yes.
Hi Milan. First thanks a lot for this maverlous indicator, it works flawlessly. One question. During recent days, and due to market conditions, is seems that the price movements is very big. I remember in the past that you mention that I must include a Global variable “delay_e” in order to help the price feed. Is this correct? what value for “delay_e” should I use?. Thanks
Hello, Do you have Range/Renko bars offline generator for MetaTrader 5 as well? Thank you
Hi Milan,
I’m wanting to get back into trading after a break and I’m thinking of going over to MT4 having used ProRealTime in the past. I particularly want to trade range bars and your product looks to be ideal. A couple of questions if I may . . .
1) I use a Chromebook – is this compatible with this product and, additionally, your OmniaRemote tool? Regarding the latter, I especially like the feature that John McDonald enquired about in his post near the start of the thread. (May 30, 2016 at 12:41 am)
2) I don’t expect you to comment on your competitors, however, as a technophobe, I’m struggling to weigh up the pros and cons of your software compared to that offered by AZ – Invest. I like simple! So, I wonder if there any features or benefits of your products that might make them easier to use and hassle free compared to theirs?
Thanks in advance,
Tim.
Hi Milan. First thanks a lot for this maverlous indicator, it works flawlessly. One question. During recent days, and due to market conditions, is seems that the price movements is very big. I remember in the past that you mention that I must include a Global variable “delay_e” in order to help the price feed. Is this correct? what value for “delay_e” should I use?. Thanks
Hi, range bar just for metatreder4? Do you have ranges for metatreder5?
Hello,
Is the bars recalculate/redraw after completed even i reload the chart ?
Thanks
The chart gets recalculated when the connection drops for more than 1 minute, and it does not recalculate if you reload it by changing the timeframe (if I understood your question properly).
How can we backtest an EA with rangebar ?
Didn’t get my verification key upon purchasing.
Please use the contact form for such issues. This is a public discussion place.
HI
will it run on MR5?
How is the starting point determined or kept constant? A range bar depends on the first tik of data. If you are always looking back 2yrs for instance each day you will be losing 1day of previous data and your range bars will shift. Does it record the most recent range bar and then start from there each time?
Actually every reversing bar restarts the chart geometry, so you may consider the chart reliable after its first direction turn.
Hi,
Does this indicator exist for mt5?
Hi, are the purchase of range bar working in mac laptop? cheers.
I hope it does, though you should try it before any purchase. You have the 15-day free trial period to examine it.
Noted with thanks
Hello. Is it possible to write a range bars indicator for mt5
Hi.
I send few times email by form but I didn’t get answer.
I use your rangebar long time.
It is perfect.
I’d like to ask you have some affiliate program for your product.
I have membership for my students
Thank you for answer
Ok. i looking for another rangebar indicator.
I sent a email to you? have you received it?
I want to buy the rangebar chart.
I only can pay it with skrill from china.
I purchased my Range Bar key from you several years ago & am so PLEASED with it that it is the ONLY WAY I traded all last year–THANK YOU!!
Can I use that same key on the MT5 platform (I’ve only been on MT4 so far). Sincerest Best to You, Marc
H, wrote a mge yeterday and I don’t see it here. How come it dessappeared?
Hi there, I wrote a message yesterday and I saw it among others, but when I opened the comments today, it dissappeared. Why is that?