Increment a Value Failure – Infinite Loops

Viewing 3 posts - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

Author

Posts
06/25/2018 at 12:14 PM #74307 quote
JonnyBoy
Participant

New
Hi Everybody,

I’ve used the forum as a guest for a long time but first post.

I am trying to build an indicator that increments a value everytime (eachbar) that the IF statement is TRUE and de-increments the value on each bar it is FALSE.

So for example if the condition had been TRUE for 5 bars the value would equal 5, then if the next bar was FALSE value = 4 and so on.

Attempt 1 – using IF statements:
```
IF LOW > LowPointave THEN
LowAdd = LowAdd + 1 
ELSE
LowAdd = LowAdd - 1
ENDIF
```
Result was the indicator just flipped between 1 and -1.

Attempt 2 – Using Loops
```
IF LOW > LowPointave THEN
i = 1
ELSE
i = 0
ENDIF

LowAdd = 0
WHILE i = 1 DO
LowAdd = LowAdd + 1 
WEND
```
Result – “An infinite loop or loop with too many iterations was detected….”

What does this mean and is there any way I can meet my goal?

Thanks kindly ,

Jon
06/25/2018 at 12:42 PM #74308 quote
Vonasi
Moderator

Master
Your first example works. I tested this:
```
LowPointave = average[200](low)

IF LOW > LowPointave THEN
LowAdd = LowAdd + 1
ELSE
LowAdd = LowAdd - 1
ENDIF

return lowadd
```
and got this:

[attachment file=74309]

So it must be whatever your LowPointAve is that is the problem.

Screenshot_1-12.png
06/25/2018 at 2:03 PM #74322 quote

Nicolas
Keymaster

Legend

You are stuck in the loop between lines 4 and 8, it will never break because your variable i remains 1 infinitely…
Author

Posts

Viewing 3 posts - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

You must be logged in to reply to this topic.

Login your account

New

Stuck on this ProBuilder code?

Describe what this topic is trying to build, in plain English, and ProRealAI writes the ProRealTime™ indicator, screener or system for you.

Available in 7 languages

Increment a Value Failure – Infinite Loops

ProBuilder: Indicators & Custom Tools

New Reply

Author

JonnyBoy @spammywammy Participant

Summary

This topic contains 2 replies,
has 3 voices, and was last updated by Nicolas
8 years, 2 months ago.

Topic Details

Forum:	ProBuilder: Indicators & Custom Tools
Language:	English
Started:	06/25/2018
Status:	Active
Attachments:	1 files

Loading...