Retaining a value defined on a previous bar

[arbuthnot]

Hi everyone

With a bool, you can keep a logical value that remains valid from one bar to the next.

What I’d like to do, if possible, is to do roughly the same for a value.

Let’s say I define certain conditions (probably for order entry but not necessarily) and I define a value by

double a = Close[0];

How can I keep the value of ‘a’ through the next n bars (until I wish it to be discarded) without it being redefined from bar to bar? In this way, I would have access to the value ‘a’ on the current bar even though it was defined, say, 5 bars ago.

Much obliged in advance with any help with this.

[sledge]

Hi everyone

With a bool, you can keep a logical value that remains valid from one bar to the next.

What I’d like to do, if possible, is to do roughly the same for a value.

Let’s say I define certain conditions (probably for order entry but not necessarily) and I define a value by

double a = Close[0];

How can I keep the value of ‘a’ through the next n bars (until I wish it to be discarded) without it being redefined from bar to bar? In this way, I would have access to the value ‘a’ on the current bar even though it was defined, say, 5 bars ago.

Much obliged in advance with any help with this.

Assuming 0.0 isn't valid (or you could use a negative #)...

if a=0.0
then
//it's been cleared and needs reset
a = close[0];

end if;

if a!= 0.0
then
//a has a valid value

end if;

or you could make another variable boolean that has whether or not A has been set (true) or needs to be set because it is new or has been cleared out of value.

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

Hello Arbuthnot,

Thank you for your post and for Sledge on answering

Sledge's example should work for your purposes.

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