Thinkscript If Statement

May 11th, 2015, 12:35 PM

mobiusrts

I copied and pasted my original code from this forum and it plots the label fine. You likely missed some of the code in your copy and paste.

I realized I was using plot variables for the conditions instead of a conditional statement. Since plot variables contained conditions, I thought they contained yes, 1, no, or 0.

May 18th, 2015, 05:55 PM

Following growex's advice I was able to get my code to work. However, it alerts me every 15 minutes and says no changes all the time.

Code

input minPips = 10;

input HTF = AggregationPeriod.HOUR;

input withinPips = 50;

input emaPeriod1 = 20;

input emaPeriod2 = 50;

def condLow =  
	close < low[1]
	and
	absvalue(open - close) >= minPips*10*ticksize()
	and
	absvalue(close - expaverage(close(period=HTF),emaPeriod1)) <= withinPips*10*ticksize()
	and
	close < expaverage(close(period=HTF),emaPeriod1)
	and
	expaverage(close(period=HTF),emaPeriod1) < expaverage(close(period=HTF),emaPeriod2);

def condHigh =  
	close > high[1]
	and
	absvalue(open - close) >= minPips*10*ticksize()
	and
	absvalue(close - expaverage(close(period=HTF),emaPeriod1)) <= withinPips*10*ticksize()
	and
	close > expaverage(close(period=HTF),emaPeriod1)
	and
	expaverage(close(period=HTF),emaPeriod1) > expaverage(close(period=HTF),emaPeriod2);

plot EMA20 = expaverage(close(period=HTF),emaPeriod1);

plot EMA50 = expaverage(close(period=HTF),emaPeriod2);

EMA20.hide();

EMA50.hide();

plot Decrease = condLow;
Decrease.SetPaintingStrategy(PaintingStrategy.BOOLEAN_ARROW_DOWN);
Decrease.SetDefaultColor(Color.RED);
Decrease.SetLineWeight(3);

plot Increase = condHigh;
Increase.SetPaintingStrategy(PaintingStrategy.BOOLEAN_ARROW_UP);
Increase.SetDefaultColor(Color.BLUE);
Increase.SetLineWeight(3);

Alert(condLow, "Decrease", Alert.Bar, Sound.bell);
Alert(condHigh, "Increase", Alert.Bar, Sound.bell);
Alert(!condLow and !condHigh, "No changes", Alert.Bar, Sound.bell);

I am not exactly sure why this is happening. The period is set to hour in the conditions.

**Just curious

**
Is there a preset 15 minute period for the sink or swim program to run scripts?

**ALSO**
If this is not clear enough, please let me know. I check the thread everyday.

Sorry for not answering your post properly @mobiusrts.

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