MACD compared to multiple past bars

Spotware
24 Feb 2016, 16:55

Dear Trader, 

You could write a loop to compare the values. However, we kindly ask you to be careful when writing loops in the Calculate method. The Calculate method is called for each historic bar starting from the beginning of the series up to the current bar and then on each incoming tick. In the case of multi-symbol / multi-timeframe implementation, it will be called on each tick of each symbol that is used in the indicator.

In other words, a loop in the Calculate method may consume a lot of memory and CPU usage according to the frequency the Calculate method is called.

croucrou
24 Feb 2016, 17:18

Hi,

use "for" loop to do this.

        for (int bar = 1; bar <= 300; bar++)
        {
            if (MacdHistogram.Histogram.Last(0) > MacdHistogram.Histogram.Last(bar))
            {
                //your logic here, 'break;' to stop the loop
            }
        }