Should I be using CountIf?

[John833]

I am trying to find out how many times a bar has closed below the current market price over a period of time.

CountIf(delegate {return (Close[1] < Close[0]);}, 60) >= 3

I was thinking I should be using the CountIf function, however Close[0] does not refer to the current market price.

Any ideas how this should be done?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Brett]

Hello,

Yes CountIf should work great for you. It will use the correct Close for the bar its referencing.

Let me know if I can be of further assistance.

[NinjaTrader_Brett]

To Clarify further however, It will use the close price of the current bar its on for the test for CountIf(). ON rereading your first sentence I'm not so sure thats what you want. Please let me know if thats not what you want you would need to use a for loop to manually loop back through the bars and count it yourself.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showpost.php?p=264040&postcount=5

This post has an example of it should you need it.