Counting Variable

Is there any easy way of counting with EAs?

e.g. if 9/10 of the last ten candlesticks > EMA 20 then Open Order

e.g. if an event has happened once within a specific time period and you opened an order, don’t open another order within this time period.

I presumed it would be a case of setting a variable to be zero in the strategy paramenters then adding one every time an event occurs but I can’t seem to get that to work

I can make an example for this. You also upload what you have done so far. It is easily done by setting up a variable and then increasing its value with “Addition” function like

var1 = Addition(var1, 1)

A simple example on how to count trades per day is also here https://strategyquant.com/forum/topic/4377-limit-number-of-trades-per-day/

Let me know if you are lost and need an example 🙂

Thanks Tomas