| PureBytes Links Trading Reference Links | Nice Q & A here - a bit of a brainteaser even ...
 
 For anyone interested, I've dissected and expanded this subject a little bit here  .
 
 Thanks Ed and Mike!
 
 
 --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Mike" <sfclimbers@xxx> wrote:
 >
 > I think that you need to get rid of the LastValue call. Run the
 > following exploration against symbol AA for the period 8/1/2007 -
 > 8/31/2007 for an example;
 >
 > xx = Close > 36;
 > Filter = xx;
 >
 > AddColumn(Ref(BarsSince(xx), -1) + 1, "Prev Bars Ago");
 >
 > Mike
 >
 > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Edward Pottasch" empottasch@
 > wrote:
 > >
 > > if xx is the array that contains true/false values and the last
 > value is
 > > true then the previous true value is
 > >
 > > LastValue(Ref(BarsSince(xx),-1))  + 1
 > >
 > > bars back.
 > >
 > > regards, Ed
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > > ----- Original Message -----
 > > From: sidhartha70
 > > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 > > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:14 PM
 > > Subject: [amibroker] Coding Question
 > >
 > >
 > > Hi All,
 > >
 > > Hopefully simple coding question that seems to be foxing me
 > briefly...
 > >
 > > I have an array who's value is true on the current bar. I want to
 > find
 > > how many bars back the prior occurence of 'true' was. The array is
 > > only every true or false...
 > >
 > > I thought this would work,
 > >
 > > x = HighestSinceBars(True,y,2);
 > >
 > > Where y is the array in question....
 > >
 > > But it doesn't seem to be working.
 > >
 > > Any ideas...?
 > >
 > > TIA
 > >
 >
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