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Need help with a formula.

Last post 05-08-2008, 14:29 by Optimus. 3 replies.
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  •  04-30-2008, 8:33 27079

    Need help with a formula.

    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?

  •  04-30-2008, 20:37 27084 in reply to 27079

    Re: Need help with a formula.

    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?

    I think you will find the forum.dll variable sum function will help you out here; or you could use a count and reset system which is a little more complicated, but not impossible.


    Hope this helps.

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  •  05-01-2008, 9:14 27096 in reply to 27084

    Re: Need help with a formula.

    As always wabbit you are an assett to the forum.

  •  05-08-2008, 14:29 27150 in reply to 27096

    Re: Need help with a formula.

    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.

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