Create a counter in a strategy

[wyatt376]

Hi guys,

this is my first post on this forum...
i need help for understand the functionality of indicators and strategies...
i want to create a counter in a strategy, that allow to count the progressive number when happena condition.. and reset this when the counter arrive at preconfigured limit...

Must i create this counter (like int i=0, i++) directly in a strategy or i must to create this as an indicator?

Thanks and sorry for my "little" english

wyatt

[wyatt376]

If I create a time-window and for every time-slot construct iteratively the value of a mathematical function, could it be the solution?

time window is a List<double>...

[Crassius]

Yes... you got... A counter is just a variable that you increment each time your code will run.... like each time the OnBarUpdate event is triggered.

You just need this as part of the Strategy Code.

[wyatt376]

yes, i do it, but my variable every time run the method onBarUpdate is reinitialized..
is a List, and i declare it as a global in file cs of the strategy, and i initialize (var=new List<double> (); ) in method Initialize()...

for this I create the all of values of the list every time run the onBarUpdate (for-cycle with 50 values of the past on a dataseries)... but in this mode i create all of list every time! it isn't optimal mode..

[chancehero]

// start at 0
j=0 
if (condition) 
{
// update counter
j=j+1
} 

chanceHero

[wyatt376]

i do it...

I Create a DataSeries and populate it every time run OnBarUpdate...
I don't know beacause my first try wasn't succesfull...

thanks!