It is short hand in C based langauges for incrementing or decrementing a number based variable.

For example in Visual Basic you would have to write.
i = i + 1 to increment the i variable.
however, in C you can simply write i++.

Hope this helps.

Hiachiever

Thanks,
so if I put if (int i=6; i>0; i++)

it will 'loop' or keep checking value until 6 max? not sure if that is right. What if I use i--? Please clarify

Matrixebiz,

if you want to start at 6 and go back to 0 then use i--

(int i=6; i>0; i--)

This will start at 6, decrement by 1 on each loop for as long as I > 0.
If you want to include 0 then use i>=0.

Cheers,
Hiachiever

Ok, so if I put if (int i=6; i>0; i++)
then it will start at 6 then , start over incrementing 1, 2, 3 ... 6, correct?

No quite if what you are wanting to do there is finish at 6.

The the code in this case would be
For (int i=1; i<=6; i++)

This will start at 1 and finish at 6 incrementing by 1 on each loop.

Cheers,
Hiachiever

I'm trying to figure out if this is wrong;
for (int i=qqea_alert_x_candles_ago; i>0; i--) {
// int i = 1;
qqea_up = iCustom(NULL,0,"QQE Alert v3",0,i);
qqea_down = iCustom(NULL,0,"QQE Alert v3",1,i);

if (qqea_up < qqea_down) {
if (i == 1) qqeacross = True;
qqea_long = True;
qqea_short = False;
} else if (qqea_up > qqea_down) {
if (i == 1) qqeacross = True;
qqea_long = False;
qqea_short = True;
}
}
}

it should check for valid signal upto "qqea_alert_x_candles_ago" bars back, but then it has (i == 1) which i==1 only happens once ??

At face value your code looks alright, that is assuming "qqea_alert_x_candles_ago" > 0.
Your problem if this is not working is more than likley in relation to iCustom.
For this function to work correctly you need to pass an input element for every input element in the actual indicator. If you don't do this, or pass the wrong data types then icustom will return nothing.

I have added a Print statement into the code above. Use this to determine if the values returned from iCustom actually contain anything.

Cheers,
Hiachiever

My EA has a number of options to calculate the stoploss of an open position. One of those options is to use the low of last "x" number of price bars.

The line of code currently used within the EA to calculate the stoploss (SL) of this option for a long position is:

SL=iLow(Symbol(),Period(),iLowest(Symbol(),Period( ),MODE_LOW,StopLossBars,0));

StopLossBars is an externally input variable.

The problem I have is that I want the value of StopLossBars to increase with every bar counted since the position was opened until one of my other conditions for stoploss over rides this condition. I guess a line of code such as:

StopLossBars = StopLossBars + BarsCountedSincePositionOpened

would do the trick. Unfortunately my coding is pretty limited to cut'n'paste and I don't know how to calculate or code BarsCountedSincePositionOpened.

Could somebody tell me how to do it please?

The code is from another EA but I was thinking that when the loop goes to "qqea_alert_x_candles_ago" > 1 then this statement "if (i == 1) qqeacross = True;" would be False now, correct? When it should stay True until i>qqea_alert_x_candles_ago.

Dear all,

I got this coding from a colleague. He told me, that should be a very good Indicator signaling SMA up or down entries. Can somebody help me to create an indicator with this coding below.

/*[[
Name := SMA Up and Down
Separate Window := no
First Color := Blue
First Draw Type := Line
Use Second Data := Yes
Second Color := Red
Second Draw Type := Line
]]*/
Inputs : MAPeriod(10), Bandwide_UP(20),Bandwide_DOWN(20);
Variables : shift(0), cnt(0), sum(0), loopbegin1(0), loopbegin2(0), first(True), prevbars(0);
Variables : MA(0);

SetLoopCount(0);
// initial checkings
If MAPeriod < 1 Then Exit;
// check for additional bars loading or total reloading
If Bars < prevbars Or Bars-prevbars>1 Then first = True;
prevbars = Bars;
// loopbegin1 and loopbegin2 prevent couning of counted bars exclude current
If first Then Begin
loopbegin1 = Bars-MAPeriod-1;
If loopbegin1 < 0 Then Exit; // not enough bars for counting
loopbegin2 = Bars-MAPeriod-1;
If loopbegin2 < 0 Then Exit; // not enough bars for counting
first = False; // this block is to be evaluated once only
End;

// convergence-divergence
loopbegin1 = loopbegin1+1; // current bar is to be recounted too
For shift = loopbegin1 Downto 0 Begin
MA = iMA(MAPeriod,MODE_SMA,shift);
SetIndexValue(shift,(MA+Bandwide_UP*point));
SetIndexValue2(shift,(MA-Bandwide_DOWN*point));
loopbegin1 = loopbegin1-1; // prevent to previous bars recounting
End;

Best regards,
Rogerio