Re: Indicator code

["david b. stanley" <davestan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm uncertain as to how much of the code you want to remain a constant but
that you are restetting the level at the beginning of each day/ Nest the code
in
a ""Begin" and  "End" under the condition that Date<>date[1].

if date<>date[1] then begin
  todaysfirstbar = currentbar;
  level=close;
end;
barstoday= currentbar-todaysfirstbar;
length = daysback*barsinday + barstoday;
}
level=close;    { <THIS  BIT DOESN'T WORK}
}
topband = level+band/2;
bottomband = level-band/2;

Virgin Trader wrote:

> I am trying to write an indicator which expresses the percentage of time a
> price has spent at (or close to) the level it is at now, over a period of a
> few days.
>
> To do this I have used the COUNTIF function. The problem is that I do not
> know how to fix the level (see code below) at the current price through the
> COUNTIF process. In other words the value used shifts back one bar every
> time a count is done, when I actually want the value to remain fixed at the
> current bar's value throughout the COUNTIF process.
>
> I hope I've explained it clearly enough. Can anyone suggest a solution?
>
> VT.
>
> ****************************************************
>
>  inputs: daysback(1),barsinday(101), band(5);
> vars: length(0),barstoday(0),significance(0),
> todaysfirstbar(0),topband(0),bottomband(0),level(0);
>
> if date<>date[1] then todaysfirstbar = currentbar;
> barstoday= currentbar-todaysfirstbar;
> length = daysback*barsinday + barstoday;
>
> level=close;    { <THIS  BIT DOESN'T WORK}
> topband = level+band/2;
> bottomband = level-band/2;
>
> condition1 =close[1] < topband and close[1]>bottomband;
> significance= CountIF(condition1, length)/length*100;
>
> plot1(significance,"significance");