RSI Above 70 sometime within last 10 bars

[brucelevy]

How would I put the following...

For example;

If RSI was above 70 anywhere within the last 10 bars

if (RSI(14, 3).Avg[10] > 70)
Does this mean on the tenth bar ago specifically? Or anywhere within the last ten bars?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello brucelevy,

Thanks for your post.

The statement: if (RSI(14, 3).Avg[10] > 70) would check that the Average line of the RSI was > 70, 10 bars ago. So it would only evaluate on 1 of the 11 bars you are interested in.

There are a number of ways to accomplish this.

1) Set up a condition where you check all 11 bars at once:
if (RSI(14, 3).Avg[0] > 70 || RSI(14, 3).Avg[1] > 70) || RSI(14, 3).Avg[2] > 70) || RSI(14, 3).Avg[3] > 70) || RSI(14, 3).Avg[4] > 70) || RSI(14, 3).Avg[5] > 70) || RSI(14, 3).Avg[6] > 70) || RSI(14, 3).Avg[7] > 70) || RSI(14, 3).Avg[8] > 70) || RSI(14, 3).Avg[9] > 70) || RSI(14, 3).Avg[10] > 70))
{
// do something here
}

2) execute a for loop where you basically do the same thing:

for (int i = 0, i<=10, i++)
{
if ( RSI(14, 3).Avg[i] > 70)
{
// do something here
break; // exit out of loop if found
}
}

3) Use a bar check which is the simplest and most efficient but depends on your code needs.
Note: saveBar is declared as an integer.

if (RSI(14, 3).Avg[0] > 70) // test once on each OnBarUpdate
{
saveBar = CurrentBar; // When condition matched, save the bar number for a test later
}

later in your code you want to see if RSI(14, 3).Avg > 70) within the last 10 bars

if (CurrentBar - saveBar <= 10)
{
// do something here
}

Hopefully one of these will be of assistance.