print current market position first time indicator is

maisatomai · Postby **maisatomai** » 27 Oct 2014

print current market position first time indicator is applied? I was wondering how can I do this cleanly.

I can code

if (barnumber=1) then

   print(MarketPosition);

but this will print the MarketPosition of bar number 1. I need the current market position.

JoshM · Postby **JoshM** » 28 Oct 2014

print current market position first time indicator is applied? I was wondering how can I do this cleanly.

I can code

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if (barnumber=1) then print(MarketPosition);
but this will print the MarketPosition of bar number 1. I need the current market position.

You mean like this?

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Variables:

	printOnce(false);

	

if (LastBarOnChart_s = true) and (printOnce = false) then begin 



	Print("The current market position is: ", i_MarketPosition);

	

	printOnce = true;



end;

Here we use `LastBarOnChart_s` so that the code is executed on the last bar (to get the current market position) so that we don't need to use `BarNumber`.

The `printOnce` variable is used to only execute the `Print()` statement once. After it has been printed, the variable is switched to `true` so that it's not printed again. This gets the current market position the first time the indicator is applied.

print current market position first time indicator is

print current market position first time indicator is

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