Track a specific Bar

[EastLondonKiwi]

Hi I am writing a indicator that looks for a specific bar type (an inverted Hammer, I call this bar a signal bar) based on a series of 3 bars occurring.

I can determine when my signal Bar occurs, but what I then want to do is, wait for another 4 bars to occur then for every bar at bar 5 or greater from the signal bar, check to see if the current bar is above the high of the previous bar.

So my question is once I have determined the presence of a signal bar how do I track it so I can determine how far advanced I am from that point. Currently I am thinking a variable that holds the signal bar's Time reference 'Time[0]' could be the way to go, but I am not sure how to check a currentBars time reference against a variable holding a time reference.

Possibly:

currentBarTime.Set(Time[0])

If (currentBarTime < (signalBarTime + 50000) {do something}

as time is in milliseconds and I am considering bars on an 1hour chart time will have to be X times 10,000

Thoughts?

Kind regards

Duncan

[EastLondonKiwi]

Ok I answered my own question.

The answer is to track a bar's time indicator, and then use an if statement

if (Time[0].Hour > (signalBarTime[0].Hour + 3))

I discovered through trial and error hours are whole numbers and not in milliseconds as I first thought.

Anyway I hope this question helps others

Kind regards

Duncan