Reference a candle by time or timestamp

• 11/04/2023 at 6:06 AM #223194
  Gopherzine

  Hi, Is it possible to reference a candle by time OR access a timestamp for a specific candle?

  The reason I ask, is I have a strategy that works well on Indices, however, sometimes the candle I use at a specific time as a reference doesn’t exist. This presents a challenge if blindly counting back candles from now to the reference time and changes how the strategy is executed.

  

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  11/04/2023 at 2:28 PM #223204
  JS

  Hi,

  I don’t think time, or a timestamp will help you determine whether a particular reference exists…

  Suppose you work with a daily time frame and you always want to look back two weeks, you can of course use Close[10] as a reference…

  Or, for example, for a fixed reference:

  If Reference=0 then

  ReferenceBar = BarIndex – 10

  Reference=1

  EndIf

  

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