Some EasyLanguage Help Please

[jjthetrader]

Hi, I was hoping someone could help me with the code for this.

I would like to know if a certain condition has been true for the last 10 bars.
Lets say one moving average has been less than the other for at least 10 bars and has crossed over on this bar.

When I try coding it it just returns that the condidtion was true 10 bars ago instead of for the last 10 bars.

Could someone please help me?
thanks
JJ

[thrunner]

I am no EL expert here, but I think you should try the CountIf function:
example based on builit in MACD LE strategy of TS with added CountIf; you may need to play with Value1 and Condition1 test length to get the logic right.
Also search for this function in TS help and TS forum.

inputs: FastLength( 12 ), SlowLength( 26 ), MACDLength( 9 ) ; variables: MyMACD( 0 ), MACDAvg( 0 ), MACDDiff( 0 ) ; MyMACD = MACD( Close, FastLength, SlowLength ) ; MACDAvg = XAverage( MyMACD, MACDLength ) ; MACDDiff = MyMACD - MACDAvg ; Condition1 = MACDDiff crosses below 0; Value1 = CountIF(Condition1, 10); // CountIF returns A numeric value containing the number of true test condition occurrences for the current bar. if Value1>0 and CurrentBar > 2 and MACDDiff crosses over 0 then { CB > 2 check used to avoid spurious cross confirmation at CB = 2 (at CB = 1, MyMACD and MACDAvg will be the same) } Buy ( "MacdLE" ) next bar at market ; { ** Copyright (c) 2005 TradeStation Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. ** ** TradeStation reserves the right to modify or overwrite this strategy component with each release. ** }

[jjthetrader]

Thank you, that should do it. I wasn't aware of that function.
I'll give it a shot. I appreciate your time.
JJ

[Dogpile]

surely my way isn't the most elegant but it works:

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value1=average(c,2);
value2=average(c,5);

value3=value1-value2;

value4=lowest(value3,10)[1];

condition1=value4>0 and value1<value2;

if condition1 then
plot1(1,"10 abv");
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I plotted it at the bottom as a histogram to show a blue bar (value of '1') if the 2 period MA was > 5 period MA for 10 bars then crossed below it last bar.

[jjthetrader]

Thank you as well. I'm not worried about elegance. My way was so choppy and long I was looking for a way to refine it a bit.