Most Recent Occurence

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

To check for the most recent occurence of a particular condition you can write something like:

private int occuredBarsAgo = -1;

for (int barsAgo = 0; barsAgo < CurrentBar; barsAgo++)
if (SMA(10)[barsAgo] > SMA(20)[barsAgo])
{
occuredBarsAgo = barsAgo;
break;
}


Ray

[ThePatientOne]

Wouldn't this code snippet find the FIRST occurrence of the test case ... not the most recent. I believe you'd want to go backwards or count down from Current bar to 0 to find the most recent occurrence.

Please advise if I am mistaken.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

You are mistaken.

Do not confuse "CurrentBar" with an index value that represents the number of bars ago.

Ray

[ThePatientOne]

Sorry ... you are correct. I misread how the index was being used. I thought the code was just cycling through the bars on the chart starting at index 0.