How to account for candle open and close being equal

[Mountain_cast]

Hi folks,
I am working on an indicator that calculates wick size in relation to candle body size.

Example is:

top wick = 3 ticks
candle body = 8 ticks
bottom wick = 2 ticks

The indicator weights the wicks against the candle averages out the top/bottom wick and plots it on a graph.

The problem I am facing is when Open and Close are the same. Basically there is nothing for the wicks to be weighted against and the graph show is empty for that bar, even though the wicks might be quite large.

My question is, how would I go about taking into account that a candle body may not exist (when difference between Open and Close price == 0)

Any ideas?

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello Mountain_cast,

That really depends on how you want to handle that. You could add a condition to check if the math used to get the ticks is 0 and supply a default value.

[Mountain_cast]

You are right. Your suggestion is actually what I had in mind. I think it's because I am not well enough versed in C# to know how to do that.


double open0 = Open[0];
double close0 = Close[0];
double candleRange0 = Math.Abs(open0 - close0);

if (candleRange0 == 0)



AND this is where i am stuck. How do something like

if (candleRange0 == 0)
double candleRangeAdjusted = candleRange0 + 1;


EDIT: I figured it out