Simple BB Strategy that needs help

• 10/15/2024 at 12:12 PM #239015
  druby

  Just to make sure where both on the same page…

  If we say the entry bar is A and the prior bar is B and the one before that was C etc.

  The condition is met on bar B which opens entry at ~open of bar A.

  The condition  on bar B, tests the high of bar C with the UPboll of bar B.

  Based on you condition it appears to do the above.

   

  Since you say that the entry was delayed by 2 bars.

  Should you be looking at a condition something like…

  high[1] crosses over Upboll

  This I think would have got you in a bar earlier

  high  crosses over Upboll

  2 bars earlier

   

  Though this doesn’t take into account if price keeps going after cross over!

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  10/15/2024 at 12:25 PM #239016
  Trader Sab

  Thank you so much for your suggestion. I am aware that I have somewhere along the line a thinking mistake, as I don’t understand is when the signal bar is A ( high is above UPboll) so the system should open on the next position the short and not wait until bar C.

  I will adjust the code as per your suggestion and let you know what comes of it. Thanks a lot!

   

  

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  10/15/2024 at 1:00 PM #239018
  Trader Sab

  I adjusted the code and I got the same mistake again.

  1st signal candle     – no short had been opened

  2nd signal candle   – a short was opened and closed correctly

  3rd signal candle    – no short was opened

  4th signal candle    – no short was opened

  I know I make somewhere a logical thinking mistake but can’t figure it out

   

  Would the code read close > than UPboll, the first two and 4th signal candles with Highs outside wouldn’t have triggered any short position.

   

  If my code reads:

  IF High [1] > UPboll THEN

  the system opens 2 shorts correctly however the following were not opened

  1st candle     – no short opened

  4th candle    – it opens a short on the signal candle, whereas on the following candle no short was opened.

   

  It drives me mad not being able to figure out the mistake!

   

   

   

  

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  10/15/2024 at 2:03 PM #239023
  druby

  Looking at the If High [1] > UPboll   image and taking it really slow…

   

  The 1st signal candle, doesn’t create a entry, because  where UPboll is on that bar,  the previous high { High[1] } is below that level.

  So no entry made.

   

  The 2nd signal, does create an entry, because where the UPboll is on that bar, the previous high { High[1] } is above  that level.

  Or to put it another way, your on the 2nd signal bar, but you using the high from the 1st signal bar.

  The entry is taken from the open of the next bar.

   

  The 3rd signal candle follows the same procedure  as the 2nd.

   

  the candle between 3rd and 4th follow the same procedure as 2nd and 3rd

   

  the 4th signal candle follows the procedure of the 1st.

   

  the candle after the 4th signal, follow  2nd, 3rd, and the one between 3rd and 4th.

   

  As far as I can tell, it looks correct and I think its how your looking at it.

   

  I get impression your looking at the same bar for both High[1] and UPboll for true signal.

  I could represent it like this  High[1] > UPboll[0], thats what you’ve got, there on different bars..

  You could be looking at High[0] > UPbol[0] which may look like a  true or false, but that would be wrong.

  Hopefully by the time you get to here , you will have cracked it.

   

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