How do i know what bar im using

• 01/22/2023 at 5:16 PM #207893
  andyafonso

  Hi fellow coders,

  One problem I run into alot when I want to program a system is that I often don’t know which bar to use.

  Let’s say I use the 1 hour timeframe and a time session of 08-22. (intraday system) If I want to compare the last candlestick of yesterday’s close (within my time session) with today’s open (within my time session).

  What close[X] and open[X] do I use then? Is the open/close function adapting to my time session that i declared above or is it using the 24hour that comes with an 1hour timeframe view?

  Hope you understand my question since it confuses me alot 🙂

  

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  01/22/2023 at 5:56 PM #207895
  robertogozzi

  You can use Dclose() and Dopen(), 0 is the cirrent one, 1 is the previous day:

  YesterdayClose = Dclose(1) TodayOpen = Dopen(0)

  1 2	YesterdayClose = Dclose(1) TodayOpen      = Dopen(0)

   

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  01/22/2023 at 6:42 PM #207901
  andyafonso

  If i do an example of the above,

  1. will Dclose(1) return the last bar of the tsession @ 22:00 or the bar at 24:00 ?
     2. will Dopen(0) return the first bar of the tsession @09:00 or the bar at 01:00 ?

  ma20 = average[20] ma200 = average[200] tsession = time > 080000 and time < 220000 if tsession then yclose = Dclose(1) topen = Dopen(0) if not longonmarket and topen < yclose and ma20 > ma200 and time=090000 then buy 1 contract at market endif if longonmarket and topen > yclose then sell 1 contract at market endif endif

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  ma20 = average[20] ma200 = average[200] tsession = time > 080000 and time < 220000     if tsession then yclose = Dclose(1) topen = Dopen(0) if not longonmarket and topen < yclose and ma20 > ma200 and time=090000 then buy 1 contract at market endif if longonmarket and topen > yclose then sell 1 contract at market endif endif

   

  

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  01/24/2023 at 11:21 AM #208069
  Nicolas

  Dopen and Dclose returns the default and official price of the market.

  

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