Resolution
Resolution or time interval is a time period of one bar. The library supports intraday resolutions (seconds, minutes, hours) and DWM resolutions (daily, weekly, monthly).
The library API has lots of methods that accept and return resolutions. A resolution value should have the ResolutionString
type.
Ticks
Format: xT
, where x
is the number of ticks.
Example: 1T
— one tick, 5T
— five ticks, 100T
— one hundred ticks.
Intraday
Seconds
Format: xS
, where x
is a number of seconds.
Example: 1S
- one second, 2S
- two seconds, 100S
- one hundred seconds.
Minutes
Format: x
, where x
is a number of minutes.
Example: 1
- one minute, 2
- two minutes, 100
- one hundred minutes.
Hours
Important: while user interface allows a user to enter a number of hours as xh
or xH
, it is never passed to the API. Hours are always set using minutes in the the library API.
Example: 60
- one hour, 120
- two hours, 240
- four hours.
DWM
Days
Format: xD
, where x
is a number of days.
Example: 1D
- one day, 2D
- two days, 100D
- one hundred days.
Weeks
Format: xW
, where x
is a number of weeks.
Example: 1W
- one week, 2W
- two weeks, 100W
- one hundred weeks.
Months
Format: xM
, where x
is a number of months.
Example: 1M
- one month, 2M
- two months, 100M
- one hundred months.
Years
Years are set using months.
Example: 12M
- one year, 24M
- two year, 48M
- four years.