Re:Easylanguage Question OBV

["Sentinel Trading" <rjbiii@xxxxxxxxx>]

You won't be able to use OBV, you'll have to perform the math where Data1 is the
Price and Data2 is the volume. I think this is it, I don't have any volume as
Data2 to test it.

{************************************User
Function*********************************)
    {Data2OBV}

if currentbar >0
then begin
 if Close[0] > Close[1] then 
  Data2OBV  = (Close Data2)[1] + (Close Data2)
 else if Close[0] < Close[1] then 
  Data2OBV = (Close Data2)[1] - (Close Data2)
 else
  Data2OBV = Data2OBV[1];
end
else
 Data2OBV=0;

{*************************Indicator**********************}

{MyOBV}

Plot1(Data2OBV,"OBV");



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Subject: Easylanguage Question
Author: owner-realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:  2/15/99 1:34 AM

Greetings,
I'd appreciate if anyone could help me out with the following
easylanguage
question:
I'm using Reuters EOD data and my problem is that they supply the
Dow/Nasdaq and other indices separately from the volume and i'm having
trouble creating
the OBV indicator in Tradestaion.
I inserted the corresponding volume as data2 into my chart and i tried
writing a custom OBV function that references data2 but i get an error
message
saying "arithmetic/numeric expression required" where data2 is.

This is my code:
Function OBVforData2-

if currentbar >0
then begin
 if Close[0] > Close[1] then
  OBVforData2 = OBVforData2[1] + Data2
 else if Close[0] < Close[1] then
  OBVforData2 = OBVforData2[1] - Data2
 else
  OBVforData2 = OBVforData2[1];
end
else
 OBVforData2=0;

Obviously, this is wrong. I'm relatively new to EL so if anyone
could help me solve this I'd really appreciate it.
Jerry