askForInput()

[yurips]

When my script loads, askForInput() is correctly popping up and letting me change parameters, and those parameters are being correcly applied.

My problem is that the entire script loads and may trigger a signal BEFORE askForInput() pops up. I was hoping the script wouldn't load and evaluate the current bar until askForInput() was done.
My question - is there some way to force a script to "wait" until I click OK on askForInput()?

For just triggering Alerts this isn't a problem, but for integrated trading it is. If I'm trading 4 markets with one script, I want to avoid 4 identical scripts with the only difference being exchange names and contract month/year.

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello Yuri,

Regardless of where you make the call to askForInput(), the entire chart loads first and then displays the input window. What you need to do to prevent trade signals from firing during the loading process is add a Boolean parameter to your study that is set to false by default. Any of your trade signals will need to add this parameter to its conditions to prevent the trade from being executed until this parameter is changed to true. When your input window is displayed you will enter your other parameters and also set the Boolean trading parameter to true.

[yurips]

Jason, the idea of true/false coming up in askForInput sounded good. The below image shows the default coming up as "false". Worked good - no fired trades - BUT - when I changed to "true" and clicked OK - what I didn't know was that every bar in the chart would be re-evaluated.
In under two seconds over 35 trades were opened and closed (I'm using market orders) - I was glad I was using my IB simulated account (losing over $1K in 2 seconds is a record!).

This is very simple code:

if (Trade)
{ Alert.addToList(getSymbol(), Msg, Color.white, Color.black);
Alert.playSound("boing.wav");
buyMarket(getSymbol(), 1, Exchange, YYMM); }

Any sure-fire ways of just starting at the current bar ?

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello Yuri,

Yes, add a check for the current bar index. Change your condition to the following.

if (Trade && getCurrentBarIndex() == 0) {