Hi Dr.Chatterjee I'm a little confused as to exactly what you are trying to achieve but I have some suggestions that might help. I've found that creating a new indicator is generally easier than creating an exploration. Typically an indicator will plot across almost an entire chart whereas an exploration generally just reports the last value. What an exploration usually cannot provide is a visible image of successive values across a chart. So creating an indicator before attempting to build an exploration is often a much more productive exercise. Here's how I would approach what I think you're trying to achieve. {Crossover Event indicator} Event:=Cross(CCI(20),35); BarsSince(Event); The "Event" variable identifies each crossing of CCI(20) above 35, and the BarsSince(Event) result returns a "zero" for each crossover and then the number of barse since the crossover, To create an exploration from the indicator I'd set it up as follows. Note that Column A has the same code as the indicator. The Filter section identifies that a crossover has just taken place. You could easily extend the filters capability to identify a crossover on any one of the most recent 5 bars by using "ColA<5" for example. {Crossover Event Exploration} {ColA: Cross} Event:=Cross(CCI(20),35); BarsSince(Event); {Filter} ColA=0; If I've not addressed the right problem then please expand your explanation. Roy

Hello Roy,

         You answered my last post on CCI exploration.I wonder if you could help me with this one?

I fashioned a custom indicator CCI with period 20.

Now I want to code an exploration where the CCI value for the current bar and the bar before it is greater than 35. The bar 2 bars ago (3rd bar counting fro current) has a CCI value  less than 35. The high of the current bar is greater than half the difference between the previous high and low added to the previous high.

I coded it thus

  Fml( "CCI") >35 AND Ref(Fml( "CCI"),-1)>35 AND
Ref(Fml( "CCI"),-2)<35 AND (H> (((Ref(H,-1)-Ref(L,-1))*.5)+Ref(H,-1)))

Plug in Filter

There seems something wrong with it. Could you please check?

Regards,

Dr.Chatterjee

Edited by user Thursday, February 2, 2017 6:34:46 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Avoid making multiple calls to the same indicator in your Fml() and/or FmlVar() as they are slow, and makes your code harder to read and maintain.

myCCI:=Fml("CCI");

{plot}
myCCI >35 AND
Ref(myCCI,-1) > 35 AND Ref(myCCI,-2) < 35 AND

(H> (((Ref(H,-1)-Ref(L,-1))*.5)+Ref(H,-1)))

 

 

Also, cci() is a reserved name for the function... this is going to lead to trouble if you try to call a custom indicator the same name.

Edited by user Friday, February 3, 2017 12:25:48 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified