More efficient usage of PRINT beyond using Barstatus = 2  [SOLVED]

Hi All,

I use print statements to monitor the scripts. But want to make it more efficient wrt not printing for the entire chart when doing a recompile and applying the strategy.

Background:

1) If you use Then it executes every HLOC. (Very bad)
2) If you useit executes on the last tick of the bar, i.e. the Close of bar)


So far so good. Now I want to

a) Add a study-recompile with statements like 2 above, but on the initial calculation only print for the last 10 bars, and NOT then entire period for the instrument on the chart, which can be hundreds or thousands of bars
BUT
b) If I playback the chart one bar at a time, then have the print statements execute for the newest bar.

Any suggestions? I hope this makes sense.

Luto,
Try this and see if it is what you want:

Thanks RRam! Worked well. It was one of those things I was trying solve but forgot about the Symbol.XX library. MaxBars call was NOT what I wanted. Thank again for your help.