Compute when bar completes not when next bar arrives

[mike_scott]

Compute on close is really compute on next bar tick...

I want an indicator running on a daily chart to display the value on the last bar when it closes. I don't want it to update on each tick during the day. Right now I am looking at a chart on Saturday and the Friday value has not computed...

The problem with all of the BARSTATE conditions is that there is no way (that I know) of to determine when the last tick has arrived. On Friday close I have to wait until Monday open to see the Friday close update of an indicator on a chart.

How can I really have compute on close of the last bar without waiting for the next trading day to open? If I applied a time template to a chart I can test for market hours but if the market closes early this doesn't work.

[Doji3333]

The only way I know to accomplish this is to use setComputeOnClose(true), but this forces your entire EFS to run only once (when the bar completes).

For years, I have developed efs code that simply waits for a new bar to form, then check the previous bar for triggers/signals because it's essentially the same thing.

You need to remember that EFS operates based on ticks. There is no guarantee that a tick will form in the last second of a bar. Thus, this is going to be something you'll have to test on your end to see how you want to deploy it.