Crosses Over doesn't work

[lucyb]

I must be stupid be I cannot get even a simple strategy to work correctly.

I have the properties to set to calculate on 'price change'. I simply want to enter long as soon as the price of the current candle breaks the high off the previous candle.

If I set the condition to 'high/ask/close' of period 0 'crosses above' the high of period 1, then the strategy produces 0 results. So I must be doing something wrong.

I can get some results if I set the condition to 'high' of period 0 is 'greater than' the 'high' of period 1. But I assume this will constantly trigger a trade every time the price changes and this isn't correct.

I only want the trade to trigger once the high is broken once. I don't want it to keep triggering. I'm unsure what to do.

[lucyb]

I can answer my own question.

I found a forum post that suggest to use a variable to check if the entry bar was the same as a the currentBar to make sure the trade isn't triggered multiple times.