Coding 5 consecutive higher close

• 10/05/2024 at 1:26 PM #238524
  jespermort

  Hi everyone!

  I am very new to coding algos for use in prorealtime and I was wondering if someone could help me with a simple question:

  I want to define a requirement to enter trades for example that in order to go long on market the close of all 5 previous bars has to be higher than the previous bar, e.g.

  if close[0]>close[1]>close[2]>close[3]>close[4]>close[5] then buy 1 contract at market endif

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  if close[0]>close[1]>close[2]>close[3]>close[4]>close[5] then   buy 1 contract at market endif

  What would be the proper way to code this?

  Thanks a lot!

  Kind regards

  

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  10/05/2024 at 1:40 PM #238525
  JC_Bywan

  Hi,

  for each close higher than previous close 5 times in a row, the long and boring way would be:

  if close>close[1] AND close[1]>close[2] AND close[2]>close[3] AND close[3]>close[4] AND close[4]>close[5] then

  1	if close>close[1] AND close[1]>close[2] AND close[2]>close[3] AND close[3]>close[4] AND close[4]>close[5] then

   

  but you may write it faster with:

  if summation[5](close>close[1])=5 then

  1	if summation[5](close>close[1])=5 then

   

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