highest close in the past 50 bars

how would i go about coding “highest close in the past 50 days” ?

You will need to use a little “hack” here. Try Functions -> Indicator Highest Value and set period = 50 -> select Simple Moving Average, set period = 1 and Apply To = Close

like this ??

i have applied the “lookback” variable so i can change it but its set to 50 now 

File: 50day high.jpg

On the right side set period to 1 instead of Lookback

Hi, this is very good idea, but I can’t set SMA period to 1. EA Wizard don’t allow to set period number  in moving avarages smaller than 2. Could you check that?

yes, you are right, it won’t accept 1 as a MA period

you will probably need to add a new function into CustomFunctions.mq4 placed in /code/ folder. The code could be:

double getHighestClose(int period) { // name of the function with parameter
   double highest = 0; // init variable to store highest value
   
   for (int i = 1; i  highest) highest = Close[i]; // check if currect bar close is greater than highest stored in "highest" variable
   }
   return(highest); // function will return calculated value
}

Then you can use this function in Wizard like it’s shown on screenshot attached

File: highestCLose.png

Thank you, I’m going to test that.

hi,

to run a  moving averages smaller than 2,,,

1. set “MA_Var” int = 1

2, use “MA_Var” as the period of the  moving averages instead 

yes.. if you tries to use “2”, EA Wizard will not accept.. this is a workaround.