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Thanks, Bob! That's what was causing it. I didn't realize that LastBarOnChart was reading time
rather than the selected tick compression. I appreciate the help!
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Dave Nadeau
Fort Collins, CO
--- Bob Fulks <bfulks@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Looks as if you are using this on a tick-based chart and you have
> several ticks with the same time in minutes. The LastBarOnChart
> function is pretty stupid and just looks for the time of the last
> bar. If you have several bars with the same time stamp, it is true
> for all those bars.
>
> You can use the following code to only print on the first such bar:
>
> Vars: LBInit(TRUE);
>
> if LastBarOnChart and LBInit then begin
> <print statement>
> LBInit = FALSE;
> end;
>
> This works OK if the values you are printing do not change on the
> other bars with the same time stamp.
>
> If you REALLY need to do something only on the real last bar, I have
> never found a way to do that. Maybe someone else has.
>
> Also note that the LastBarOnChart function does not seem to work if
> you refer to the open on the next bar anywhere in your code. It seems
> to be waiting for the bar after the last bar on the chart - really
> clever...
>
> Bob Fulks
>
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