ATR Trailing Stop – Simplified Creation Issue

• 05/08/2021 at 12:09 PM #169103
  Yantra

  When I try to use “PRC_ATR Trailing Stop v2.1” as part of a backtest using simplified creation (i.e. Buy/Sell when slow trail crosses under/over price or alternatively under/over fast trail) I receive the following error message:

  “The function “PRC-ATR Trailing stop v2.1″ returns 2 values but your code needs 3”

  I am using PRT v11 on IG. What am I doing wrong I’m wondering? Any light appreciated.

  Thank you.

  

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  05/09/2021 at 9:34 AM #169150
  robertogozzi

  That happens because the indicator uses DRAWCANDLE to paint empty space in between the two lines.

  If you don’t mind that colouring you can comment out line 62:

  //drawcandle(trail1,trail2,trail1,trail2) coloured(rtrail,gtrail,0,50)bordercolor(0,0,0,0)

  1	//drawcandle(trail1,trail2,trail1,trail2) coloured(rtrail,gtrail,0,50)bordercolor(0,0,0,0)

  or, if you need it, manually modify the created code, removing the second IGNORED from the variables left to the “=” operator with the CALL:

  indicator1, ignored, ignored = CALL "PRC_ATR Trailing Stop v2.1"(close) //before indicator1, ignored = CALL "PRC_ATR Trailing Stop v2.1"(close) //after

  1 2	indicator1, ignored, ignored = CALL "PRC_ATR Trailing Stop v2.1"(close) //before indicator1, ignored = CALL "PRC_ATR Trailing Stop v2.1"(close)          //after

   

   

  

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