Hi everyone!

I'm hoping someone can help me out.  I'm writing some formulas and I'm a little stuck in one area of what I want to identify a swing high and I'm just having a difficult time with a programatic approach, so I thought I'd ask.

I want to identify a swing high  --  a high where there are at least 5 lower highs than the swing high bar high and at least 5 lower lows that the swing high bar low on either side of the swing high bar.  The tricky part is they do not have to be consecutive?

Any ideas?

Optimus:

I want to identify a swing high  --  a high where there are at least 5 lower highs than the swing high bar high and at least 5 lower lows that the swing high bar low on either side of the swing high bar.  The tricky part is they do not have to be consecutive?

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Wabbit,

I thought I'd ask a follow up question, as I'm trying to wrap my head around this one.  How would you go about creating this in the Forum DLL.  I just don't know what function would work best.

I think you should use the "highest since function" which allows your prviouse high expression and is also the "nth "expression of this , in your case 5 , i.e highestsince (nth, expression ,data array) then reference this formula before reverse (lowset since). IF YOU REQUIRE ANY FURTHER ASSISTANCE CONTACT ME AT -                          http://www.tradingtraders.co.uk/