intra day tick

[jh109052]

Please forgive my ingnorance. I am having great trouble working my way through both the coding I need to do and finding help to answer my questions - which are all very elementary at this time.

How do I find the value of the current tick in the current bar ? I understand how to use close(), open(), low() etc to find values in previous bars, but I am clueless and very confused about how to find the value of the current tick in the current active bar. Does $TICK mean anything ? I have seen that in a handful of examples.

What I am trying to do is determine if the current tick value is above, below or equal to the previous tick value. Maybe I am making this waaaaayyy to hard.

Please advise. ALL HELP WILL BE GREATLY appreciated...
Jennifer

[dloomis]

Re: Reply to post 'intra day tick'

Jennifer

Sounds like you have a few of the basics down, so see if this helps

close(0) is the same as last

you might want to consider saving the value of close(0)

closePrior=close(0)

and then on the next pass of the efs compare close(0) to closePrior
var closePrior=0;

function main(){
if(close()<closePrior)debugPrintln("downTick")
if(close()>closePrior)debugPrintln("upTick")
closePrior=close()
return;
}

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