How to test if we are on the latest bar ?

• 11/21/2019 at 1:22 PM #113316
  bobt

  Hi,

  I am writing an indicator where sometimes I want to calculate against all bars, and sometimes only against the most recent bar.

  Effectively I want to be able to use “DEFPARAM CalculateOnLastBarOnly” but within an IF statement driven by a boolean variable declared against the indicator ( thereby allowing a user to control the output ).

  However, from what I can see the DEFPARAM can’t be placed within an IF, and so I need to code this for myself.

   

  How do I detect ( elegantly !! ), if I am currently working against the “current” candle ?

  This indicator can be used against ANY timeframe, and so comparisons against currenttime become quite messy, quite quickly.

  BarIndex effectively numbers from the beginning of the available bars – I need the inverse of BarIndex, so that I’m at 0 when on the current bar.

   

  Does anyone have any elegant solutions ?

   

  Regards,

   

  Bob

  

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  11/21/2019 at 1:28 PM #113317
  Nicolas

  With the use of the new available instruction (only in version 11) : IsLastBarUpdate

   

   

  

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  11/21/2019 at 2:01 PM #113318
  bobt

  Hi Nicolas,

   

  Thanks for the quick reply – it’s good to know there is now a built in way of achieving this ( is full documentation of the new v11 commands available as yet ? ).

   

  However, my users are mainly customers of IG, who have not rolled out v11 yet, and so I still need to achieve this the “old fashioned” way .. 🙁

   

  If anyone has any good ideas, I’d be very grateful.

   

  Regards,

  Bob

  

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  11/22/2019 at 11:28 AM #113400
  Nicolas

  The old way was by using this kind of condition:

  IsLastBarOnChart=currenttime=opentime and date=today

  1	IsLastBarOnChart=currenttime=opentime and date=today

   

   

  

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