Loop to Record Average Change in Bars

June 18th, 2013, 01:11 PM

I am trying to record the average difference in the highs of the last few bars. This is the code I have:

For Counter = BarsToAvg DownTo 1 Begin
BarDevi = (High[Counter] - High[Counter+1]);
TotalDevi = HighDevi + HighDevi[1];
Print(TotalDevi:6:6)
Print(Counter);
End;

Print(High[1]-High[2]:6:6);
Print(High[2]-High[3]:6:6);
Print(High[3]-High[4]:6:6);
Print(High[4]-High[5]:6:6);

The output I get for this is:
0.000000
4.00
0.000000
3.00
0.000000
2.00
0.000000
1.00
0.002500
0.000500
0.000700
0.000700

Why don't my numbers match up? Any help is greatly appreciated!

October 23rd, 2013, 07:52 AM

BarDevi = (High[Counter] - High[Counter+1]);
TotalDevi = HighDevi + HighDevi[1];

You was using BarDevi, then using HighDevi.
Should they be same? Otherwise BarDevi would be meaningless in this indicator.

ABCTG · October 25th, 2013, 01:15 PM

You are printing TotalDevi, which in your code piece is always 0.
I guess the summation for TotalDevi should look something like in this code.
Set it to 0 before the loop and then with each loop add BarDevi to it.

Code

		TotalDevi = 0;
		For Counter = BarsToAvg DownTo 1 Begin
			BarDevi = (High[Counter] - High[Counter+1]);
			TotalDevi = TotalDevi + BarDevi;
			
			Print("High["+NumToStr(Counter, 0)+"]-High["+NumToStr(Counter+1, 0)+"]: ", BarDevi:6:6);
			Print("TotalDevi: ", TotalDevi:6:6);
		End;

		Print("High[1]-High[2]: ", High[1]-High[2]:6:6);
		Print("High[2]-High[3]: ", High[2]-High[3]:6:6);
		Print("High[3]-High[4]: ", High[3]-High[4]:6:6);
		Print("High[4]-High[5]: ", High[4]-High[5]:6:6);

Regards,
ABCTG

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