Is MAX() function inclusive?

[RK142]

Hi,

Does:

MAX(High,1)[1]

Return yesterday's high, or the day before yesterday's high?

thanks,
RK142

[coolmoss]

Hi RK,

[0] is always the current bar (whether completed or not), so [1] is the prior bar. Thus, your syntax will refer to what the MAX value was 1 bar ago.

[NinjaTrader_Lance]

What coolmoss said is correct. Your calculate on bar close setting will determine if it refers to the prior bar's high or the bar before that. This would only refer to daily bars if you were currently operating on a daily chart

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?calculateonbarclose.htm

If you just wanted the prior high you could use

High[x]// where x is the bars ago value

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?high.htm

Let me know if I can further assist.

[RK142]

Thank you both.

I understand how to call the prior High, but what I'm doing is a little trickier than that, and it will help me to implement my logic if I understand whether:

Max(High,1)[1]

Is equivalent to

High[1], or
High[2].

Which one?

-RK142

[NinjaTrader_Lance]

In this specific case it would return the same value as High[1]

You can confirm this by sending a print to the output window (tools -> output window)

Print(High[1]);
Print(Max(High,1)[1]);

Let me know if I can further assist.

[RK142]

Thanks!

-RK