Can I Do This In A Single Expression?

• 04/19/2017 at 11:38 AM #32573
  Geester

  Hi,

  I’m trying to emulate some screening code originally written for another platform.

  Using something like this: MAXH15.4

  The other platform interprets this as give the Maximum Value of the High of the bar(s) over 15 bars, starting 4 bars ago.Or …

  MINL21.3

  Give the Minimum Value of the Low of the bar(s) over 21 bars, starting 3 bars ago.

  I appreciate that there are MIN/MAX functions available in PRT but the documents suggest they accept as lists of literal values. To have to iterate in loops to arrive at values like this would be very cumbersome when you want (and I want) to replicate filters like this:

  ((L1 = MINL4) OR (L2 = MINL4) OR (L3 = MINL4) ) AND
  ( (MAXC3 < MAXC4.3)) AND
  ( (H3 = MAXH15.4) OR (H4 = MAXH15.4) OR (H5 = MAXH15.4) OR (H6 = MAXH15.4) OR (H7 = MAXH15.4) ) AND (((MAXH4.3 – MINL4) / (MAXH4.3 – MINL21.3) > .23) AND ((MAXH4.3 – MINL4) / (MAXH4.3 – MINL21.3) < .62) ) AND
  ((AVGH3.5) > (AVGH3.8 ) AND (AVGH3.8 ) > (AVGH3.13) AND (AVGH3.13) > (AVGH3.18 ))

  Any ideas as to the best approach to combine bar sequences with functions as expressions?

  Many thanks.

   

  

  Geester

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  04/19/2017 at 1:41 PM #32599
  Nicolas

  Geester wrote:

  Maximum Value of the High of the bar(s) over 15 bars, starting 4 bars ago

  That could be coded like this:

  value = highest[15](high)[4]

  1	value = highest[15](high)[4]

  Geester wrote:

  Give the Minimum Value of the Low of the bar(s) over 21 bars, starting 3 bars ago.

  and the same way to find a lowest low of X bars ago:

  lowestlow = lowest[21](low)[3]

  1	lowestlow = lowest[21](low)[3]

  Hope it helps you sort all the rest of your code!

  

  Nicolas

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  04/19/2017 at 1:44 PM #32601
  Geester

  Awesome! Thank you Nicolas 🙂

  

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  04/19/2017 at 3:54 PM #32633
  Geester

  Hi Nicolas,

  Can you tell me what is wrong with this syntax?

  expr2 =  higest[4](price)[3]

  See attached image for error details.

  Thanks! 🙂

   

  

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  04/19/2017 at 4:18 PM #32637
  GraHal

  Highest high or lowest low , but highest price??  Is Price even an allowed term?

  High, Low, Open, Close and Mid Price and you’d have to calculate Mid from (Low + (High-Low/2)) ??

  

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  04/19/2017 at 4:27 PM #32638
  Geester

  My bad. I had tried so many combinations to make this work, I mistyped. However, it still doesn’t work. Consider this:-

  expr1 = lowest[4](low) // This works and, the “lowest” word is in GREEN

  expr2 = higest[3](close) // This fails with the red squiggle in the editor window. Also, the “highest” word is in WHITE

  Ideas?

  

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  04/19/2017 at 4:37 PM #32639
  Geester

  Wow, I’ve got it working now. I overtyped the word “highest” and it turned GREEN. Syntax squiggle disappeared?? Very strange! 🙂

  

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