Increment a Value Failure – Infinite Loops

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06/25/2018 at 12:14 PM #74307 quote
JonnyBoy
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Hi Everybody,

I’ve used the forum as a guest for a long time but first post.

I am trying to build an indicator that increments a value everytime (eachbar) that the IF statement is TRUE and de-increments the value on each bar it is FALSE.

So for example if the condition had been TRUE for 5 bars the value would equal 5, then if the next bar was FALSE value = 4 and so on.

Attempt 1 – using IF statements:
```
IF LOW > LowPointave THEN
LowAdd = LowAdd + 1 
ELSE
LowAdd = LowAdd - 1
ENDIF
```
Result was the indicator just flipped between 1 and -1.

Attempt 2 – Using Loops
```
IF LOW > LowPointave THEN
i = 1
ELSE
i = 0
ENDIF

LowAdd = 0
WHILE i = 1 DO
LowAdd = LowAdd + 1 
WEND
```
Result – “An infinite loop or loop with too many iterations was detected….”

What does this mean and is there any way I can meet my goal?

Thanks kindly ,

Jon
06/25/2018 at 12:42 PM #74308 quote
Vonasi
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Master
Your first example works. I tested this:
```
LowPointave = average[200](low)

IF LOW > LowPointave THEN
LowAdd = LowAdd + 1
ELSE
LowAdd = LowAdd - 1
ENDIF

return lowadd
```
and got this:

[attachment file=74309]

So it must be whatever your LowPointAve is that is the problem.
06/25/2018 at 2:03 PM #74322 quote

Nicolas
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You are stuck in the loop between lines 4 and 8, it will never break because your variable i remains 1 infinitely…
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Increment a Value Failure – Infinite Loops

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Forum:	ProBuilder: Indicators & Custom Tools
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Started:	06/25/2018
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