problem loading bars

[eurostoxx]

so i have been pulling my hairs out trying to figure what was wrong with my code and i finally realized that the EFS is not loading all the bars, only about 200, when there are over 1000 on the chart

any ideas why

here is the EFS

var myFlag = null; // 
var a,b,c,d,e,v,w,x,y,z;

var high_3days=0;
var low_3days=1000000;   
var high_5days=0;
var low_5days=0;
var a_highs = new Array();
var a_lows= new Array();
var bar_counter;
var xDaily_h = null;
var xDaily_l = null;

// 3 day/bar breakout alert 
function preMain() {
    setPriceStudy(true);
    setShowTitleParameters( false );
    setCursorLabelName("55 bar bo", 0);
grID = 0;    

}


function main( )

{ // opening bracket


{ 
   
}

if(getBarState()==BARSTATE_ALLBARS)
{
xDaily_h = high(inv("D"));
xDaily_l = low(inv("D")); 
var bint = false;
bar_counter = 0;
//a_highs = new Array(2,4,6,8,10);
}
if (bint == true)
{
bar_counter=0;
bint=false;
}
if (bar_counter > 50)
{
a_highs = new Array(a,b,c,d,e);
a_lows = new Array(v,w,x,y,z);
}


// load only at beginning of a bar 
if (getBarState()==BARSTATE_NEWBAR)
{
bar_counter++;
a = xDaily_h.getValue(-1);
b = xDaily_h.getValue(-2);
c = xDaily_h.getValue(-3);
d = xDaily_h.getValue(-4);
e = xDaily_h.getValue(-5);    
    
  
v = xDaily_l.getValue(-1);
w = xDaily_l.getValue(-2);
x = xDaily_l.getValue(-3);
y = xDaily_l.getValue(-4);
z = xDaily_l.getValue(-5);   
  



//low_5daysdays= Math.min(v,w,x,y,z);  
 
//high_3days = Math.max(a,b,c);
//low_3days= Math.min(x,y,z);

if ( a_highs != null);
{
//max_highs =33;
for ( i = 0; i< 3; i++)
{
//var v = a_highs[i];
if (a_highs[i] > high_3days)
high_3days = a_highs[i];
}   
}

if ( a_highs != null);
{
//max_highs =33;
for ( i = 0; i< 5; i++)
{
//var v = a_highs[i];
if (a_highs[i] > high_5days)
high_5days = a_highs[i];
}   
}


if ( a_lows != null);
{
//max_highs =33;
for ( i = 0; i< 3; i++)
{
//var v = a_highs[i];
if (a_lows[i] < low_3days)
low_3days = a_lows[i];
}   
}

if ( a_lows != null);
{

for ( i = 0; i< 5; i++)
{
if (a_lows[i] < low_5days)
low_5days = a_highs[i];
}   
}





} // end of current bar state


// start of after newbar

if( high(0) > high_3days)
{
myFlag = "Abv 3 D";
setBarFgColor(Color.black,0);
setBarBgColor(Color.RGB(192,255,160));
debugPrintln("ulow of 3 days ="  + b + " bar counter " + bar_counter);
}
else if (low(0) < low_3days)
{
myFlag = "Blw 3 D";
setBarFgColor(Color.white,0);
setBarBgColor(Color.RGB(255,160,160));
//debugPrintln("downn");
}
else
{
myFlag = "Inside ";
setBarFgColor(Color.black,0);
setBarBgColor(Color.lightgrey,0);
//debugPrintln("Not up or down");
}


return new Array(myFlag);

} // closing bracket of main


// Supporting Functions 

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Re: problem loading bars

eurostoxx

... i finally realized that the EFS is not loading all the bars, only about 200, when there are over 1000 on the chart

Are you stating the above based on the count shown in the Formula Output Window? If that is the case then keep in mind that it is the count at the last bar in which the condition if( high(0) > high_3days) is true and not the count across all the bars in the chart.
Alex

Originally posted by eurostoxx
so i have been pulling my hairs out trying to figure what was wrong with my code and i finally realized that the EFS is not loading all the bars, only about 200, when there are over 1000 on the chart

any ideas why

here is the EFS

var myFlag = null; // 
var a,b,c,d,e,v,w,x,y,z;

var high_3days=0;
var low_3days=1000000;   
var high_5days=0;
var low_5days=0;
var a_highs = new Array();
var a_lows= new Array();
var bar_counter;
var xDaily_h = null;
var xDaily_l = null;

// 3 day/bar breakout alert 
function preMain() {
    setPriceStudy(true);
    setShowTitleParameters( false );
    setCursorLabelName("55 bar bo", 0);
grID = 0;    

}


function main( )

{ // opening bracket


{ 
   
}

if(getBarState()==BARSTATE_ALLBARS)
{
xDaily_h = high(inv("D"));
xDaily_l = low(inv("D")); 
var bint = false;
bar_counter = 0;
//a_highs = new Array(2,4,6,8,10);
}
if (bint == true)
{
bar_counter=0;
bint=false;
}
if (bar_counter > 50)
{
a_highs = new Array(a,b,c,d,e);
a_lows = new Array(v,w,x,y,z);
}


// load only at beginning of a bar 
if (getBarState()==BARSTATE_NEWBAR)
{
bar_counter++;
a = xDaily_h.getValue(-1);
b = xDaily_h.getValue(-2);
c = xDaily_h.getValue(-3);
d = xDaily_h.getValue(-4);
e = xDaily_h.getValue(-5);    
    
  
v = xDaily_l.getValue(-1);
w = xDaily_l.getValue(-2);
x = xDaily_l.getValue(-3);
y = xDaily_l.getValue(-4);
z = xDaily_l.getValue(-5);   
  



//low_5daysdays= Math.min(v,w,x,y,z);  
 
//high_3days = Math.max(a,b,c);
//low_3days= Math.min(x,y,z);

if ( a_highs != null);
{
//max_highs =33;
for ( i = 0; i< 3; i++)
{
//var v = a_highs[i];
if (a_highs[i] > high_3days)
high_3days = a_highs[i];
}   
}

if ( a_highs != null);
{
//max_highs =33;
for ( i = 0; i< 5; i++)
{
//var v = a_highs[i];
if (a_highs[i] > high_5days)
high_5days = a_highs[i];
}   
}


if ( a_lows != null);
{
//max_highs =33;
for ( i = 0; i< 3; i++)
{
//var v = a_highs[i];
if (a_lows[i] < low_3days)
low_3days = a_lows[i];
}   
}

if ( a_lows != null);
{

for ( i = 0; i< 5; i++)
{
if (a_lows[i] < low_5days)
low_5days = a_highs[i];
}   
}





} // end of current bar state


// start of after newbar

if( high(0) > high_3days)
{
myFlag = "Abv 3 D";
setBarFgColor(Color.black,0);
setBarBgColor(Color.RGB(192,255,160));
debugPrintln("ulow of 3 days ="  + b + " bar counter " + bar_counter);
}
else if (low(0) < low_3days)
{
myFlag = "Blw 3 D";
setBarFgColor(Color.white,0);
setBarBgColor(Color.RGB(255,160,160));
//debugPrintln("downn");
}
else
{
myFlag = "Inside ";
setBarFgColor(Color.black,0);
setBarBgColor(Color.lightgrey,0);
//debugPrintln("Not up or down");
}


return new Array(myFlag);

} // closing bracket of main


// Supporting Functions 

[eurostoxx]

thanks for the reply... sorry though I am not 100% clear on what you mean...

I thought (and correct me if I am wrong), that the:

if( high(0) > high_3days)

and all the other 'else' stmts, will run on every new bar, since it is not enclsed in the "current_bar state".

are you saying that the if stmt will only run until it returns "true" 1 time, and then after that stop?

if so, then I would just need to enclose the if statmnt in BarState_Currentbar? I tried that but nothing happens (really the EFS doesnt do anything)

i just want the if statments to run on every new bar/ tick. The counter is only there to initialize the array after a few bars pass, since otherwise i get an error message

[eurostoxx]

its also wierd since i wrote a test script to see if there is something wrong, but this (below) EFS loads all the bars

I am really stuck as to what I am doing wrong in the fist EFS but not the 2nd

var a,b,c,d,e,v,w,x,y,z;
var bar_counter=0;
var xDaily_h = null;
var xDaily_l = null;

function preMain() {}


function main( )
{

if(getBarState()==BARSTATE_ALLBARS)
{
xDaily_h = high(inv("D"));
xDaily_l = low(inv("D")); 
}

if (getBarState()==BARSTATE_NEWBAR)
{
bar_counter++;
a = xDaily_h.getValue(-1);
b = xDaily_h.getValue(-2);
c = xDaily_h.getValue(-3);
d = xDaily_h.getValue(-4);
e = xDaily_h.getValue(-5);    
    }
    
    
    debugPrintln( c + " bar counter " + bar_counter  ); 
    
    } 

[ACM]

eurostoxx

thanks for the reply... sorry though I am not 100% clear on what you mean...
I thought (and correct me if I am wrong), that the:
if( high(0) > high_3days)
and all the other 'else' stmts, will run on every new bar, since it is not enclsed in the "current_bar state".

That conditional statement [as well as the ones that follow it] is evaluated once per bar on historical bars and then on every tick in real time however the debugPrintln included in it is executed only when that statement is true hence the value of bar_counter [which is increased once every bar] will reflect the count at that bar.
If you want to verify the total count then add a debug statement immediately after you increase bar_counter by 1 on each bar
Alex

Originally posted by eurostoxx
thanks for the reply... sorry though I am not 100% clear on what you mean...

I thought (and correct me if I am wrong), that the:

if( high(0) > high_3days)

and all the other 'else' stmts, will run on every new bar, since it is not enclsed in the "current_bar state".

are you saying that the if stmt will only run until it returns "true" 1 time, and then after that stop?

if so, then I would just need to enclose the if statmnt in BarState_Currentbar? I tried that but nothing happens (really the EFS doesnt do anything)

i just want the if statments to run on every new bar/ tick. The counter is only there to initialize the array after a few bars pass, since otherwise i get an error message

[eurostoxx]

ok so I think i have narrowed the problem

i am unsure as to where to initialized my custom array in the code.. i want to use it on a 15/30min chart, and I want the array to have 5 days H/L values so I though I would need to get about 50-100 bars before i call the getvalue, so that is why I put the counter in

but now i cant seem to figure out where to declare the variable (i thought above the premain) and then intialize the array within the new bar when counter > 100

but even if I try that , as

a_highs[3] = c; (where a_high is the array for highs)

i get an error

[eurostoxx]

finally got it.... my for loop, to find the high/ low vale was the problem!

wow what a waste of time on a stupid little thing!