Barsince and valuewhen function

[zoltran]

Amibroker has a nice 'BarsSince' function that returns the number of 'Bars Since' an event was true.
What would be a way of doing this in Ninjascript?

For example, the number of bars since macd was over 0 etc. ?

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

I'm not familiar with AmiBroker but likely there is no direct equivalent.

However, you always could go back in any time series an inspect conditions X bars ago, something like:
if (CurrentBar < X) // make sure you have X bars or more
return;

if (SMA(14)[X] > Close[X]) // SMA above Close X bars ago
// trigger your action

[zoltran]

Thanks !

And when do you sleep ? ;-)

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

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