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Version: v26

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.

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