How to Write Previous Up Bars

[ginx10k]

Hey guys. I'm curious. How do I write a Condition to Look "If the Last 5 or More Bars are UP Bars...." Do something..... and How about "if the last 5 or more bars have Higher Lows than each previous bar.....Do something"

I read the MIN guide, but still don't know how to do it properly. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

[ginx10k]

I Tested This but Its Not working right. It keeps showing arrows everywhere. even when the Last 5 bars Were NOT UP bars.

PICTURE: http://screencast.com/t/aMYwD8pg6WN

   #region Variables
        // Wizard generated variables
            private int myInput0 = 1; // Default setting for MyInput0
        // User defined variables (add any user defined variables below)
        #endregion

        /// <summary>
        /// This method is used to configure the indicator and is called once before any bar data is loaded.
        /// </summary>
        protected override void Initialize()
        {
            Overlay				= true;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Called on each bar update event (incoming tick)
        /// </summary>
        protected override void OnBarUpdate()
        {
            if (CurrentBar < 5)
				return;
			
			
			if(MIN(Close, 5)[1] > MIN(Open, 5)[1]) //The MIN displays if the Last 5 bars Close UP starting with [1] bar ago.
				{ DrawArrowDown("My down arrow" + CurrentBar, false, 0, High[1] + 3 * TickSize, Color.Red);	}	
			
			
			 
			
        }	//DON"T TOUCH

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello ginx10k,

Thank you for your post.

There is no method to determine the up bars over a period. Max and Min look for the Highest or Lowest value over the period, not consistent highs or lows.

You can implement a for loop to quickly and easily check for these conditions without multiple repeating lines of code:

			int count = 0;
			for(int i = period; i >= 0; i--)
			{
				if(Close[i] > Open[i]
					&& Close[i] > Close[i+1]
					&& Low[i] > Low[i+1])
				{
					count++;
				}
			}
			if(count == period)
			{
				Print("Last " + period + " bars are up.");
			}

[ginx10k]

Didn't work. Thanks for quick response Patrick (as always u rock). It didn't draw any arrows anywhere.

any ideas??

I tried this code:

	int count = 0;
						for(int i = period; i >= 0; i--)
						{
							if(Close[i] > Open[i]
								&& Close[i] > Close[i+1]
								&& Low[i] > Low[i+1])
							{
								count++;
							}
						}
						if(count == period)
						{
							DrawArrowDown("My down arrow" + CurrentBar, false, 0, High[1] + 3 * TickSize, Color.Red);
							Print("Last " + period + " bars are up.");
						}

[ginx10k]

Also tried

I also Tried This code

for(int i = period; i >= 0; i--)
						{
							if((Close[i] > Open[i]) )
							{
								count++;
							}
						}

and it Shows Arrows. but Still Shows arrows even in areas where we didn't get 5 consecutive UP Bars


I don't know why its just NOT working.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello ginx10k,

Thank you for your response.

My mistake, the for loop should minus one from the period as the bars objects use 0 for the current bar:

			for(int i = period - 1; i >= 0; i--)
			{
				if(Close[i] > Open[i]
					&& Close[i] > Close[i+1]
					&& Low[i] > Low[i+1])
				{
					count++;
				}
			}

[ginx10k]

Hey Patrick. as always. thanks for your assistance. Worked out Great! Cheers!!