Division By Zero Error

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09/04/2024 at 11:18 AM #237070 quote
whateveritmightbe
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Good Day Everyone,

this is about another division by zero issue. It does happen to me with various instruments (NDX, DAX etc.) only within the 1M time frame.
I checked other forum posts and tried a few things: -volume is > 0, -only execute in a selected time frame, -tried the min and max function

Here is part of the code (I think it happens with “mySTOLong = STOCHASTIc…”, if I set it the mySTOLong value to 0 it does work).
And of course every time it stops i see that close = open and open = high and high = low….

Any idea or comment is highly appreciated!

Thx Oliver
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mySTOnLong                    = 1 
mySTOkLong                    = 6
mySTOsmootherLong             = 4 
mySTOlookPeriodsLong          = 11 
mySTOoverBoughtLimitLong      = 90 
mySTOoverSoldLimitLong        = 49 
LongTime                      = time>=090000 and time<170000


if longtime and NOT ONMARKET then

// STOCHASTIC CONDITION
//
mySTOLong                     = STOCHASTIc[mySTOnLong,mySTOkLong](close)


//mySTOLong                     = 0 // STOCHASTIc[mySTOnLong,mySTOkLong](close)


mySTOsmoothedLong             = AVERAGE[mySTOsmootherLong](mySTOLong)
mySTOcrossOverLong            = SUMMATION[mySTOlookPeriodsLong]((mySTOLong CROSSES OVER mySTOsmoothedLong) AND (mySTOLong < mySTOoverSoldLimitLong))
mySTOnotOverBoughtLong        = (mySTOLong < mySTOoverBoughtLimitLong) AND (mySTOsmoothedLong < mySTOoverBoughtLimitLong)
mySTOconditionLong            = mySTOcrossOverLong AND mySTOnotOverBoughtLong


ENDIF
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09/04/2024 at 11:42 AM #237071 quote

JC_Bywan
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Hi,

it might be because with mySTOnLong=1, this means the stochastic calculation is made with a division of high-low, and that would indeed be worth zero when high=low.

Maybe an if statement checking high vs low for mySTOnLong=1, or >1 on its own (although it might happen again with mySTOnLong=2 if 2 consecutive candles with twice same high=low, but not as frequently, a more general condition could be written if that’s the case):

if (mySTOnLong=1 and high<>low) or mySTOnLong>1 then

mySTOLong = STOCHASTIc[mySTOnLong,mySTOkLong](close)

else

mySTOLong = // choose what default value to give when high=low and stochastic cannot be calculated over a span of mySTOnLong=1

endif

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