How do I stop repeat signals

• 06/29/2017 at 4:42 PM #39423
  paulon

  I am creating some indicators based on various combinations including moving average crossovers.   Once I have an UP signal, how can I code the indicator to ignore more UP signals until there has been a DOWN signal?

   

   

  

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  06/29/2017 at 6:33 PM #39436
  Nicolas

  Make a variable that store the last signal direction and test it before launching a new signal.

  

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  06/30/2017 at 9:17 AM #39466
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  Nicolas thanks for your reply but I’m sorry I don’t understand how to do this.

  

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  06/30/2017 at 4:21 PM #39517
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  I could show you directly into your code if you can share it with us.

  

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  10/30/2017 at 5:56 PM #50953
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  I bump this thread since i want the same thing. For this current easy command i dont want it to give repeated signals when Lower Low and Lower Close repeats.

  //defparam CALCULATEONLASTBARS=20 if on=1 then stoch=Stochastic[12,3](close) ema=average[10,1](close) // ll=low[1]<low[2] lc=close[1]<close[2] if ll and lc and stoch[2]>80 and close[2]>ema then drawtext("LL LC",barindex[1],high[1]+range[1],SansSerif,standard,12)coloured(255,50,50) drawarrowdown(barindex[1],high[1]) endif //hh=high[1]>high[2] //hc=close[1]>close[2] //hc2=high>high[1] // //if hh and hc and hc2 then //drawtext("HH HC",barindex[1],low[1]-range[1],SansSerif,standard,12)coloured(50,255,50) //drawarrowup(barindex[1],low[1]) //endif endif return

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  //defparam CALCULATEONLASTBARS=20   if on=1 then   stoch=Stochastic[12,3](close) ema=average[10,1](close)   // ll=low[1]<low[2] lc=close[1]<close[2]       if ll and lc and stoch[2]>80 and close[2]>ema then drawtext("LL LC",barindex[1],high[1]+range[1],SansSerif,standard,12)coloured(255,50,50) drawarrowdown(barindex[1],high[1]) endif   //hh=high[1]>high[2] //hc=close[1]>close[2] //hc2=high>high[1] // //if hh and hc and hc2 then //drawtext("HH HC",barindex[1],low[1]-range[1],SansSerif,standard,12)coloured(50,255,50) //drawarrowup(barindex[1],low[1]) //endif endif return

  Thankful for help!

   

  //Viktor

  

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  10/30/2017 at 6:02 PM #50955
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  I tried this

   

  //defparam CALCULATEONLASTBARS=20 if on=1 then stoch=Stochastic[12,3](close) ema=average[10,1](close) // ll=low[1]<low[2] lc=close[1]<close[2] if signal=0 and ll and lc and stoch[2]>80 and close[2]>ema then drawtext("LL LC",barindex[1],high[1]+range[1],SansSerif,standard,12)coloured(255,50,50) drawarrowdown(barindex[1],high[1]) signal=1 else signal=0 endif //hh=high[1]>high[2] //hc=close[1]>close[2] //hc2=high>high[1] // //if hh and hc and hc2 then //drawtext("HH HC",barindex[1],low[1]-range[1],SansSerif,standard,12)coloured(50,255,50) //drawarrowup(barindex[1],low[1]) //endif endif return

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  //defparam CALCULATEONLASTBARS=20   if on=1 then   stoch=Stochastic[12,3](close) ema=average[10,1](close)   // ll=low[1]<low[2] lc=close[1]<close[2]       if signal=0 and ll and lc and stoch[2]>80 and close[2]>ema then drawtext("LL LC",barindex[1],high[1]+range[1],SansSerif,standard,12)coloured(255,50,50) drawarrowdown(barindex[1],high[1]) signal=1 else signal=0 endif   //hh=high[1]>high[2] //hc=close[1]>close[2] //hc2=high>high[1] // //if hh and hc and hc2 then //drawtext("HH HC",barindex[1],low[1]-range[1],SansSerif,standard,12)coloured(50,255,50) //drawarrowup(barindex[1],low[1]) //endif endif return

  and it gets rid of one repetition. How do i keep it/determine length?

  

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  10/30/2017 at 6:24 PM #50956
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  i did this now and it works OK but if anyone has a better suggestion i all ears 🙂

  //defparam CALCULATEONLASTBARS=20 if on=1 then stoch=Stochastic[12,3](close) ema=average[10,1](close) atr=AverageTrueRange[10](close) // ll=low[1]<low[2] lc=close[1]<close[2] if signal=0 and signal[1]=0 and signal[2]=0 and signal[3]=0 and ll and lc and stoch[2]>80 and close[2]>ema then drawtext("LL LC",barindex[1],high[1]+atr,SansSerif,standard,12)coloured(255,50,50) drawarrowdown(barindex[1],high[1]) signal=1 else signal=0 endif //hh=high[1]>high[2] //hc=close[1]>close[2] //hc2=high>high[1] // //if hh and hc and hc2 then //drawtext("HH HC",barindex[1],low[1]-range[1],SansSerif,standard,12)coloured(50,255,50) //drawarrowup(barindex[1],low[1]) //endif endif return

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  //defparam CALCULATEONLASTBARS=20   if on=1 then   stoch=Stochastic[12,3](close) ema=average[10,1](close) atr=AverageTrueRange[10](close) // ll=low[1]<low[2] lc=close[1]<close[2]       if signal=0 and signal[1]=0 and signal[2]=0 and signal[3]=0 and ll and lc and stoch[2]>80 and close[2]>ema then drawtext("LL LC",barindex[1],high[1]+atr,SansSerif,standard,12)coloured(255,50,50) drawarrowdown(barindex[1],high[1]) signal=1 else signal=0 endif   //hh=high[1]>high[2] //hc=close[1]>close[2] //hc2=high>high[1] // //if hh and hc and hc2 then //drawtext("HH HC",barindex[1],low[1]-range[1],SansSerif,standard,12)coloured(50,255,50) //drawarrowup(barindex[1],low[1]) //endif endif return

   

  

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  10/31/2017 at 11:22 AM #51046
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  You could have saved the barindex of the first signal and then test if enough bars have passed since then to give a new signal.

  Or store the first signal price into a variable and test if the new signal is different from the last saved one.

  

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  10/31/2017 at 11:40 AM #51050
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  You mentioned that in your first reply above, but i dont know how to do that. Can you please provide a code example?

  Thanks

  

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  11/02/2017 at 10:36 AM #51269
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  ???

  

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  11/02/2017 at 11:16 AM #51280
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  Sorry @lebrinque, but sometimes between 2 topics, I take some rest 🙂 It was days off yesterday in France also!

  This is the amended code:

  stoch=Stochastic[12,3](close) ema=average[10,1](close) atr=AverageTrueRange[10](close) // ll=low[1]<low[2] lc=close[1]<close[2] if ll and lc and stoch[2]>80 and close[2]>ema and barindex-lastsignal>2 then drawtext("LL LC",barindex[1],high[1]+atr,SansSerif,standard,12)coloured(255,50,50) drawarrowdown(barindex[1],high[1]) lastsignal=barindex[1] endif return

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  stoch=Stochastic[12,3](close) ema=average[10,1](close) atr=AverageTrueRange[10](close) // ll=low[1]<low[2] lc=close[1]<close[2] if ll and lc and stoch[2]>80 and close[2]>ema and barindex-lastsignal>2 then drawtext("LL LC",barindex[1],high[1]+atr,SansSerif,standard,12)coloured(255,50,50) drawarrowdown(barindex[1],high[1]) lastsignal=barindex[1] endif   return

  ‘lastsignal’ variable is your new friend, take care of him 🙂

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  11/02/2017 at 11:17 AM #51282
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  Thank you!!

  

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  11/02/2017 at 12:09 PM #51296
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  Also @nicolas the other topic i created “Command depending on prior command” as a spinoff from this one – hope it was OK to create a new thread for that.

  

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