Avoiding two consecutive signals in a row

[laocoon]

Hello,

I developed an indicator that draws a dot below a candle (for a long signal) if certain conditions are met.
In case two consecutive candles in a row meet the criteria, I want to avoid that the indicator draws two dots in a row in order to keep my chart clean.
How can I do that? (It comes down to checking if the conditions were met for the prior bar and if they're met again in the current bar, then no dot should be drawn).

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello laocoon,

If you only ever want one drawing object to appear, you can re-use the tag name, and this will move the existing object to the current bar instead of generating a new object.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/forum/ninjatrader-8/strategy-development/109349-strategy-buy-sell-signal-on-chart?p=838630#post838630

You could also remove the dot on the previous bar with RemoveDrawObject().

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/removedrawobject.htm

You could check the condition was not true one bar ago in the condition set that draws the dot.

For example if the condition is that the Close is greater than the Open.

if (CurrentBar > 1 && Close[1] <= Open[1] // check the previous bar close is not greater than the open
&& Close[0] > Open[0]) // check the current bars close is greater than the open

[laocoon]

Hello ChelseaB,

Thanks for your reply.
I don't want only one drawing object ever to appear, I want all to appear, just not if there are two (or more) candles in a row that meet my criteria.
Example:
-If three consecutive candles meet my criteria, I only want the drawing object to appear above/below the first candle.
-If the first candle meets my criteria, I want the drawing object to appear, if the second doesn't meet them it obviously won't appear but if the third candle meets them again I want the drawing object to appear again.

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello laocoon,

In your condition you would check bars ago 1 does not have the condition true and bars ago 2 does not have the condition true and bars ago 0 does have the condition true.