Issue with fill and text labels when plotting daily EMA zone on a 5-minute chart

• 11/20/2025 at 9:11 PM #253832
  Tito Peronni

  Hi,

  I’m trying to draw/plot a zone between two daily-timeframe values on a 5-minute chart. In general, everything seems to work except for the last candle, where the fill function produces a noticeable spike.

  Additionally, the text labels do not appear; when I don’t use the timeframe function, they show up on the right side as expected (see cursor information, it seems to be correct floats).

  Spike on colorbetween

  defparam drawonlastbaronly=true // 1 DAY (1D) TIMEFRAME(1 DAY) dema1 = DEMA[1](close) dema2 = DEMA[2](close) DRAWTEXT(" dema 1", BarIndex, dema1, Dialog, Bold, 12) COLOURED(1,1,1) DRAWTEXT(" dema 2", BarIndex, dema2, Dialog, Bold, 12) COLOURED(1,1,1) colorbetween(dema1, dema2, 1,1,1, 50) return dema1 coloured(1,1,1) style(line,1) as "dema 1", dema2 coloured(1,1,1) style(dottedline,2) as "dema 2"

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  defparam drawonlastbaronly=true   // 1 DAY (1D) TIMEFRAME(1 DAY)   dema1 = DEMA[1](close) dema2 = DEMA[2](close)   DRAWTEXT(" dema 1", BarIndex, dema1, Dialog, Bold, 12) COLOURED(1,1,1) DRAWTEXT(" dema 2", BarIndex, dema2, Dialog, Bold, 12) COLOURED(1,1,1)   colorbetween(dema1, dema2, 1,1,1, 50)   return dema1 coloured(1,1,1) style(line,1) as "dema 1", dema2 coloured(1,1,1) style(dottedline,2) as "dema 2"

  

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  11/21/2025 at 12:00 PM #253854
  Iván

  Hi!
  The issues you are encountering are due to how Multi-Timeframe (MTF) instructions handle the BarIndex and the data aggregation. To hide the visual artifact on the forming candle you coudl manipulate transparency.
  try this:

  defparam drawonlastbaronly=true TIMEFRAME(daily,updateonclose) dema1 = DEMA[1](close) dema2 = DEMA[2](close) once alpha=50 if islastbarupdate then alpha=0 endif timeframe(default) DRAWTEXT(" dema 1", BarIndex, dema1, Dialog, Bold, 12) COLOURED(1,1,1) DRAWTEXT(" dema 2", BarIndex, dema2, Dialog, Bold, 12) COLOURED(1,1,1) colorbetween(dema1, dema2, 1,1,1, alpha) return dema1 coloured(1,1,1) style(line,1) as "dema 1", dema2 coloured(1,1,1) style(dottedline,2) as "dema 2"

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  defparam drawonlastbaronly=true   TIMEFRAME(daily,updateonclose)   dema1 = DEMA[1](close) dema2 = DEMA[2](close)   once alpha=50   if islastbarupdate then    alpha=0 endif   timeframe(default)   DRAWTEXT(" dema 1", BarIndex, dema1, Dialog, Bold, 12) COLOURED(1,1,1) DRAWTEXT(" dema 2", BarIndex, dema2, Dialog, Bold, 12) COLOURED(1,1,1)   colorbetween(dema1, dema2, 1,1,1, alpha)   return dema1 coloured(1,1,1) style(line,1) as "dema 1", dema2 coloured(1,1,1) style(dottedline,2) as "dema 2"

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  11/21/2025 at 3:00 PM #253869
  Tito Peronni

  Thank you very much for all your help!

  What I was able to verify (by printing the value of the last candle) was that the value of dema2 was N/A. However, the lines can be drawn and dema1 is allways defined. Why does the function work fine on the first calculation but not on all subsequent ones?

  

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