How can I count the number of past signals

• 03/12/2021 at 11:57 PM #163969
  rnesler

  This may be a basic one but I could not find an answer in the forums etc:-). Any help appreciated!

  I have programmed plenty of signals for many indicators in the past two years, and show them in a separate window below the chart. So far so good, but this only shows me the signals graphically.

  What I am after for back-testing purposes/research etc, … I would like to get the exact numeric value /summation of signals during a specific time period.  To keep it simple, lets assume the signal is defined as the MA (8) crossing over the MA (34) on a 15 mins timeframe, and that happened 43 times in the past 3 years. I see of course the 43 signal bars…the issue though is that counting them manually is a rather tedious excercise…is there are way to get the count as a numeric value?

  Much obliged:-)!

   

  

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  03/13/2021 at 2:22 AM #163972
  robertogozzi

  This one returns the number of occurrences since Jan.1st 2019 (not tested):

  Ma8 = average[8,0](close) Ma34 = average[34,0](close) CrossOver= Ma8 crosses over Ma34 Once Tally= 0 If Date >= 20190101 then If CrossOver then Tally = Tally + 1 Endif Endif Return Tally as “Tally”

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  Ma8      = average[8,0](close) Ma34     = average[34,0](close) CrossOver= Ma8 crosses over Ma34 Once Tally= 0 If Date >= 20190101 then    If CrossOver then       Tally = Tally + 1    Endif Endif Return Tally as “Tally”

   

  

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