Vonasi wrote:

Forget crosses over and crosses under and us > and < and also adjust the way you think AND works in your bollinger conditions and you have what you want if I understand your question right.

Averagecrosslong= ExponentialAverage[8](close) > ExponentialAverage[13](close)</p> <p>Abovebollinger = (ExponentialAverage[8](close) > Average[21](close)) and (ExponentialAverage[13](close) > Average[21](close))</p> <p>Averagecrossshort= ExponentialAverage[8](close) < ExponentialAverage[13](close)</p> <p>Belowbollinger= (ExponentialAverage[8](close < Average[21](close)) and (ExponentialAverage[13](close) < Average[21](close))</p> <p>If Averagecrosslong and Abovebollinger THEN<br /> BUY 1 PERPOINT AT MARKET<br /> ENDIF</p> <p>If Averagecrossshort and Belowbollinger THEN<br /> SELLSHORT 1 PERPOINT AT MARKET<br /> ENDIF</p> <p>SET STOP pTRAILING VLSTOP

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Averagecrosslong= ExponentialAverage[8](close) > ExponentialAverage[13](close) Abovebollinger = (ExponentialAverage[8](close) > Average[21](close)) and (ExponentialAverage[13](close) > Average[21](close)) Averagecrossshort= ExponentialAverage[8](close) < ExponentialAverage[13](close) Belowbollinger= (ExponentialAverage[8](close < Average[21](close)) and (ExponentialAverage[13](close) < Average[21](close)) If Averagecrosslong and Abovebollinger THEN BUY 1 PERPOINT AT MARKET ENDIF If Averagecrossshort and Belowbollinger THEN SELLSHORT 1 PERPOINT AT MARKET ENDIF SET STOP pTRAILING VLSTOP

Thanks for the suggestion Vonasi, but this code enters on almost every bar (as you can see from the screengrab). I only want this to enter after the line cross on August 3. There should be no other entries in that time period. The next time it should enter should only be whenever the line crosses again. It’s about me trying to enter at the beginning of a trend, not during a trend.

Does this make sense?

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Vonasi wrote:

My guess is that your trailing stop is too close as trades are opening and closing in the same bar then the conditions are met again at the next bar.

Try this (not tested):

Thanks for that. We’re very close 🙂

The problem now is the delay on entry while it processes the Bollinger variable. As you can see from the screengrabs, one shows an entry on August 6 and one shows an entry on August 5 (this is when I removed the Bollinger criteria). How can we enter on August 5 but include the “above bollinger” criteria in the code?

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I’ve done that with the code. Now the screengrab shows the black X for the Bollinger occurring on Aug 5 (this is the right-hand X of the two) but if you look at the lines on the chart, the purple moving average is above the black Bollinger line on Aug 3 and Aug 4. How can it be that PRT says it was only above the Bollinger on Aug 5?

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Sorry, I missed the date from the first grab. Here are three screenshots with a hover over Aug 3, Aug 4 and Aug 5.

All criteria are met on Aug 3 and yet the graph cross says “abovebollinger” is 0. It’s even more obvious that all criteria are met on Aug 4, but it’s only on Aug 5 that the graph acknowledges that “abovebollinger” has been met.

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