I think i made some progress today, I learned what was blocking me with the other indicator, it didn't HAVE a buffer and the example in the tutorial used a buffer. I have another indicator and successfully added it to an EA without the compiler giving me any errors, there were some errors but I resolved them. My current issue is that I can't quite get the indicator values recognized by the rest of the EA so I can't use it as a filter until I learn how to get the EA to 'see' the indicator variables outside of the indicator code itself. I am not starting from ground zero here. If i could just get a little tutoring with specific projects.
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