Well, I am constantly learning something new. My quest today began trying to figure out how to determine the number of bars loaded on a given chart. Google is a real friend most of the time, but it is always a red flag when your search comes back empty... it usually means that everyone else already knows the answer. I got stuck in a rut thinking it would have something to do with BARSSINCE, such as barrsince (C>0), but if you'll try, you'll see that that doesn't work. If you plug in the actual value of the first bar it will, e.g., barssince(c=45.77), but that doesn't help. Anyway, the easy, but somewhat hidden answer is to use the CUMULATE function or CUM. Cum(1) will add one point for every bar loaded and thus give you the number of bars loaded and a method for calculating the number of bars since the first bar. Easy.

and George, you can use the BarsSince() function too! barssince(cum(1)=1) :wink: :wink: wabbit :D

George, I use Cum(1) a lot... It can be used to make sure there is enough data loaded in an exploration or on a chart to make exponential and self-referencing indicators valid e.g. lastvalue(cum(1))>250 It can be used to remember 'when' a particular event occured on a chart e.g. valuewhen(1,c<ref(c,-1),cum(1)) It can be used in latches (don't happen to have an example at hand but I know I've got one somewhere!) It can be used when writing formulas for moving averages and statistical functions, like deviations etc... etc etc etc It is a very powerful little function! wabbit :D

Hello to all. Dear Mr George_Stockman, congratulations for your New Position in Equis! I want also to say a Hello to Wabbit and of course to one of my favourite Persons of Equis Forum, Jose! Jose i hope to go well! Regards, George Kanellopoulos.