Good afternoon all,
I am trying to generate a piece of code that will provide a buy or sell signal on the chart dependent on when we break above or below the highest or lowest point of the last 5 periods.
I am sure this is easily done however I am inexperienced in coding.
Any help would be gratefully received.
Thanks all! Happy trading
myhigh=highest[5]
Mylow=lowest[5]
If not onmarket and close> myhigh then
buy myamount perpoint at market
endif
If notonmarket and close <mylow then
sellshort myamount perpoint at market
endif
// Use this on the 1 seconds chart and change 5 to whatever the sconds value of your timeframe x5 (so 5 mins would be [300]
The only issue is that with 1,000,000 units you can only test about 1 month in backtest…. If you are happy entering on the close of the 1 minute candle run it on the 1 minutes..
There are programming manuals on here to download, and a programming coarse I’d recommend…
you can also substitute close for high or low
In lines 4 and 8 you need to add [1] to myhigh and mylow, as CLOSE will never close above the current high.