CommentaryEnabled

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This reserved word returns a value of True only when the Expert Commentary window is open and Commentary has been requested.

This allows you to optimize your trading strategies, analysis techniques, and functions for speed, as it allows PowerLanguage to perform commentary-related calculations only when the Expert Commentary window is open.

Usage

CommentaryEnabled

Notes

The difference between CommentaryEnabled and AtCommentaryBar is that CommentaryEnabled returns a value of True for ALL bars when the Expert Commentary window is open, while the AtCommentaryBar returns a value of True only for the bar clicked with the Expert Commentary pointer.

Example

CommentaryEnabled

Will return True if the Expert Commentary Tool has been applied to the chart.