ATR Trailing Stop

[vienna]

Hi !

In the Stocks&Commodities Forum is a great EFS:

the modified ATR trailing stop.efs

http://forum.esignalcentral.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30704

The problem is that the stop is not updading from alone and i must refresh the chart afer a new period.

Is there a chance to amend this?

Thanks

[ACM]

Re: ATR Trailing Stop

vienna
As far as I can see that efs is intended for backtesting use and the reason why it does not update in real time is because of the following conditional statement
if(getCurrentBarIndex() == 0) return;
which stops the efs from executing once it is processing the most recent bar on the chart (ie bar index 0)
Even if you were to remove or comment out that line of code you would then need to also revise the trading signals logic which is currently set to evaluate the bar being processed and execute the trades based on the Open of the following bar. While the value of the Open of the following bar is known as the efs processes historical data during a backtest it is not known in real time. In order to resolve this you would need to change all the references to evaluate the bar prior to the one being processed and execute the trade on the bar currently being processed
Alex

Originally posted by vienna
Hi !

In the Stocks&Commodities Forum is a great EFS:

the modified ATR trailing stop.efs

http://forum.esignalcentral.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30704

The problem is that the stop is not updading from alone and i must refresh the chart afer a new period.

Is there a chance to amend this?

Thanks

[vienna]

Hi Alexis !

Thanks very much for your quick answer as usual !!!!!!

I put in a "1" instead of the "0" .

I looks like that the line is now updading. i only need the line not the arrows and signals.

Thaks

Vienna

[ACM]

Vienna
You are most welcome

I put in a "1" instead of the "0" .

You can also just comment out that whole line
Alex

Originally posted by vienna
Hi Alexis !

Thanks very much for your quick answer as usual !!!!!!

I put in a "1" instead of the "0" .

I looks like that the line is now updading. i only need the line not the arrows and signals.

Thaks

Vienna