Counter isn’t working

• 05/06/2023 at 10:56 AM #214226
  Andres

  Hello,

  I’m working on a code that should only buy when the condition occurs for the second or more times. Unfortunately, I’m facing an issue where the counter doesn’t seem to increase and remains at 1, causing the “IF counter>x” condition to always return the same result, regardless of x.

  // Reset for each day if Date[1] <> Date[0] then counter = 0 endif Divg = DivergenceMACD[12,26,9,20](close) //counter IF Divg>0 THEN counter=counter+1 ENDIF // Conditions to enter long positions IF counter>3 and Divg>0 THEN BUY 1 SHARES AT MARKET ENDIF

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  // Reset for each day if Date[1] <> Date[0] then counter = 0 endif   Divg = DivergenceMACD[12,26,9,20](close)   //counter IF Divg>0 THEN counter=counter+1 ENDIF   // Conditions to enter long positions IF counter>3 and Divg>0 THEN BUY 1 SHARES AT MARKET ENDIF

  

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  05/06/2023 at 10:58 AM #214227
  fifi743

  et comme ceci

   

   

  // Reset for each day if Date[1] <> Date[0] then counter = 0 endif Divg=0 Divg = DivergenceMACD[12,26,9,20](close) //counter IF Divg>0 THEN counter=counter+1 ENDIF // Conditions to enter long positions IF counter>3 and Divg>0 THEN BUY 1 SHARES AT MARKET ENDIF

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  // Reset for each day if Date[1] <> Date[0] then counter = 0 endif Divg=0 Divg = DivergenceMACD[12,26,9,20](close) //counter IF Divg>0 THEN counter=counter+1 ENDIF // Conditions to enter long positions IF counter>3 and Divg>0 THEN BUY 1 SHARES AT MARKET ENDIF

  

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  05/06/2023 at 1:00 PM #214232
  PeterSt

  Hi Andres,

  Start out with this :

  Once counter = 0 // counter must have an initial value. if Date[1] <> Date[0] then counter = 0 endif

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  Once counter = 0   // counter must have an initial value. if Date[1] <> Date[0] then   counter = 0 endif

  If you don’t do this, counter will have an undefined value which probably is a huge negative number. So it will add up, but only when a new day has started, it will reset to 0 for the first time.
  Maybe what fifi added helps too ( I don’t readily see why he does it) and possibly it is so that both amendments are required to get it going.

  You can let your code end with

  graph counter graph Divg

  1 2	graph counter graph Divg

  Then you can see what values these variables receive.

  

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  05/06/2023 at 7:57 PM #214239
  Andres

  Thank you very much fifi743 and PeterSt for your answers. Thanks PeterSt specially for the command “graph” I didn’t know it.

  Actually the code was working I could see it with “graph counter”. The problem is that it jumps from 0 to 4, or to 0 to 20, etc. So I’m going to adjust it to start from 4, or something else.

   

  

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