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Hi guys, I have finished reading the EL essentials PDF and I'm trying to understand how the machine calculates a strategy. The PDF mentions that by default, the strategy is calculated once at the CLOSE of the bar.
Here's a simple code on 60 min GBP/USD. I understand what's going on but trying to figure out how the machine processed it.
input: mycounter(0);
vars: mycount(0) ;
if sessionlastbar[1] then mycount = 0;
mycount= mycount +1;
if mycounter = mycount then buy next bar at market;
if marketposition = 1 then sell next bar at market;
When mycounter=1 this code buys at the open of the first bar of the session and sells at the open of the bar after it as shown in the attached screenshot.
At the close of the last bar in the session (the 16:59 bar) ---> sessionlastbar[1] is FALSE so how is it buying at the open of the 18:00 bar? It only becomes true once the 18:00 bar closes.
Please excuse my newbie-ness
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
I would suggest to add print statements to your code, so you know what's going on internally.
Something like this should show you what your code sees:
Based on that you should gain more insights. I'd also suggest checking your session template, just to make sure that there aren't sessions ending at 1600.
not all reserved words can be back referenced (meaning give you the values they had on previous bars - they could simply return the current bar's value even when you check for [1]), therefore it's usually a good practice to store the reserved word in a variable and reference the variable in your code.
