Omit sunday candle

• 10/31/2017 at 2:10 PM #51066
  Despair

  Is there a way to really omit the sunday candle so it doesn’t increase the barindex? I would want friday to be say bar index 1000 and then monday shall be 1001 and not 1002 because of the sunday candle.

  

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  10/31/2017 at 2:22 PM #51069
  Nicolas

  Make your own barindex counting only if we are not on Sunday:

  if open[0]<>lastopen and opendayofweek<>0 then lastopen = open[0] mybarindex=mybarindex+1 endif return mybarindex

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  if open[0]<>lastopen and opendayofweek<>0 then lastopen = open[0] mybarindex=mybarindex+1 endif   return mybarindex

   

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  10/31/2017 at 3:02 PM #51081
  Despair

  This was a good idea Nicolas but will not work for addressing a special bar. If I for example need the close 25 of my bars (without sundays) back

  c=close[myindex-25]

  1	c=close[myindex-25]

  will give wrong results. One would also have to count how many sundays where omitted and then add this number when addressing a bar because PRT internally still counts the sundays. :-S

  Another question, do you have a good idea how to check if the underlying in question has a sunday bar? I’m working on an indicator that counts bars but it shall not count sundays. It works nice on assets that have no sunday bar but if there is a sunday bar it becomes wrong.

  

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  10/31/2017 at 3:18 PM #51084
  Nicolas

  Just test if your security has a opendayofweek=0, if not, there is no Sunday.

  

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