BarsSinceExit

[shawnkm]

I read somewhere on this forum to get around the issue of barsonexit having a default value of -1 and not having a trade in the system in the system (thus no trades will ever be made) you use this:

(BarsSinceExit() > 3 || BarsSinceExit() == -1)

Doesn't seem to be working for me.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello shawnkm,

Thank you for your post.

Can you post a code snippet that demonstrates this not working?

[shawnkm]

Sure... Thanks for the help by the way... Here is the sample code I was playing with, I included a pic as well:


// Enter market conditions go here
if (Position.MarketPosition == MarketPosition.Flat)
{
if (BarsSinceExit() > 30 || BarsSinceExit() == -1);
{
EnterLong();
}
}

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello shawnkm,

Thanks for your post.

It looks like you have an inadvertent ";" prematurely ending the conditional statment if (BarsSinceExit() > 30 || BarsSinceExit() == -1);

Once you remove the ";" the code will then execute as you intended.