Code vertical lines on 3rd fridays [SOLVED]

paul.robillard · Postby **paul.robillard** » 20 Nov 2015

To draw a vertical line on the 3rd friday of every month on an historical graph I have come up with the following code. Given MC calculates for ever, i believe i may have an infinite loop.

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while (count < 3) begin		

if (month(date) = month(date[1])) and (dayofweek(date) = 5) and (count = 3) then

	begin

		thirdfriday = date;

		print(thirdfriday);

		TLID = 

		tl_new(thirdfriday,900,0,thirdfriday,900,low-100); 

		tl_SetColor(TLID, green);

		tl_setstyle(TLID, 1); 

		count = 0;

//		txtID = Text_New(thirdfriday, Time, low-50, text(thirdfriday));

	end

else if ( (month(date) = month(date[1])) and (dayofweek(date) = 5) and (count < 3) ) then

count = (count + 1);

end;

Thank you for your help

paul.robillard · Postby **paul.robillard** » 22 Nov 2015

Finally i read somewhere that 3rd fridays are allways between the 15 and 21st of the month, given the comment (overthinking it) sank in, i came up with this :

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{assuming 3rd friday's are allways between the 15th and 21st}



if dayofmonth(date)>14 and dayofmonth(date)<22 and dayofweek(date)=5 then

begin

		thirdfriday = date;

//		print(thirdfriday);

TLID = 

		tl_new(thirdfriday,900,0,thirdfriday,900,low-100); 

		tl_SetColor(TLID, green);

		tl_setstyle(TLID, 1); 

		end;

and the result seems pretty good.

TJ · Postby TJ » 22 Nov 2015

You had previously asked about the Next3rdFriday function.

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if Next3rdFriday(0)=0 

and Next3rdFriday(0)[1]<>0 

then begin

There is more than one way to skin a cat... not necessary this way is better than the other; as long as the code gets the job done, it is ok.

paul.robillard · Postby **paul.robillard** » 23 Nov 2015

As i am backtesting some i figured next3rdfriday (wrongly ?) would not do the job.

Thanks.

Code vertical lines on 3rd fridays [SOLVED]

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