Counter isn’t working

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  • 05/06/2023 at 10:56 AM #214226 quote
    Andres
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    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
    05/06/2023 at 10:58 AM #214227 quote
    fifi743
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    Master

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

    Hi Andres,

    Start out with this :

    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

    Then you can see what values these variables receive.

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

    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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Counter isn’t working


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