Find high or low between bars

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03/08/2022 at 12:34 PM #189597 quote

krogen
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Hi there,

I know there is a way to find the high or low of a number of bars BACK from the current bar, but is there a way to say “find me the highest close value between bar index 2 and 10”?

So between two arbitrary bars, find the highest or lowest value. I can probably script something up but thought there must be a function to do this!

Thanks again

k

03/08/2022 at 2:46 PM #189603 quote
robertogozzi
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This is the code to find “the highest close value between bar index 2 and 10”:
```
HH = highest[9](close[2])
```
it will scan bars 2 through 10 (9 bars).

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03/08/2022 at 9:29 PM #189658 quote

krogen
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Thanks Robert! Wow, I never would’ve figured that out. Thanks again!

10/07/2024 at 5:15 PM #238626 quote
D.trading
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Hello Roberto, this is an extremely helpful snippet of code. Thanks for sharing.

However I use it and don’t fully understand the results of the Highest function.

Can you please help me to understand why searching for a recent high using the “HIGH” function gets a different result from the “HIGHEST” function?

The image attached shows my result and you can find the code below.

As far as I understand, both should return the same result.

I am relatively new to PRT, so apologies if I’ve missed something obvious.

Thanks,
David.
```
HH1 = High[1]
HH2 = High[2]

HH = highest[2]
HHH = MAX(HH1,HH2)

Return HH AS "Recent Highest", HHH AS "Recent MAX"
```
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10/07/2024 at 6:04 PM #238628 quote

fifi743
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highest[2](close) : search for the number of times, the highest number in brackets of what is in brackets

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10/07/2024 at 7:15 PM #238630 quote

D.trading
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Thank you so much! That’s done the trick.

10/08/2024 at 8:38 AM #238648 quote
robertogozzi
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Use
```
HH1 = High
HH2 = High[1]
```
to match
```
highest[2]
```
as bars are identified from 0 (the current one, i.e. the first, or rightmost, bar) up to BarIndex; HIGH[BarIndex] is the HIGH of the leftmost bar, the very first bar.

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