Help with congestion area

[tkaboris]

hI. I want to develp a congestion area where price is stuck between the levels, in this case price is stuck within MIN MAX last 5 bars. I am doing something wrong but i cant fiture out. lines get drawn not exactly on the price levels tha it needs.

double lowest5 = MIN(Low, 5)[1];
double highest5 = MIN(High, 5)[1];

if (Close[1] > lowest5 && Close[2] > lowest5 && Close[3] > lowest5 && Close[4] > lowest5
&& Open[1] < highest5 && Open[2] < highest5 && Open[3] < highest5 && Open[4] < highest5)

{
Draw.TriangleUp(this, "arrowUp"+CurrentBar,false,1,Low[1]-2*TickSize,Brushes.White);
Draw.Line(this, "HighestCong"+Bars.Count.ToString(), false, 5, MAX(High,4)[0], 1, MAX(High,4)[0], "Cong Values");
Draw.Line(this, "LowestCong"+Bars.Count.ToString(), false, 5, MIN(Low,4)[0], 1, MIN(Low,4)[0], "Conge values");
}

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello tkaboris,

The code you provided is essentially what you described. You are checking the MIN/MAX of the last 5 bars. You get the MIN/MAX of 1 BarsAgo and assign that to a variable. Those variables are used to check if the open and close are within those values.

To know why that is not working as expected you will need to use a Print and find out what the values are.

You can print the Time object to know what a value is for each bar:

double lowest5 = MIN(Low, 5)[1];
double highest5 = MIN(High, 5)[1];​
Print(Time[0] + " " lowest5 + " " + highest5);

That would give you the two MIN/MAX values for each bar with a timestamp. You could then use the databox to compare the specific instances on the chart.