Entering Trades When Price Away from Key Areas of Support & Resistance

[dgregor5]

Hi....
Pls bear with me on this one, whilst I try & explain what I am attempting to do.
I have a simple JMA strategy which enters a trade when 2x different JMAs cross & also when there is a continuation after a pullback.

What I would like to do is limit trade entry to when the price is not close to a key area of support & reistance. i.e.

if (Close[0] + 10 < AreaOfSupport && AreaOfSupport + 10 < Close[0])
then EnterLong().

I have now established indicators (which are basically a number of constant lines with a specific price value associated to each) which can be used for the above purpose.

However, the number of lines I am talking about is > 20 & I was thinking there must be two coding options to execute this:

1/ As above, but repeat that line of code for the different AreasOfSupport & AreasOfResistance ---- laborious.

or.....

2/ If (Close[0] - 10 < AreaOfSupport 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, etc && AreaOfSupport 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, etc. + 10 < Close[0]
then EnterLong() ---- quicker to code.

Since I have a number of different entry & exit conditions for both long & short then samples '1' or '2' have to be repeated for each of the conditions, hence the preference for Option '2' if this is possible.

Question to NT -> Is option '2' possible to code?
Many thx in advance

David

[Pete S]

Is each set of support resistance lines a pair and they may overlap? Or are all of the support lines lower than all of the resistance lines (i.e. you really only need to check the hghest support and lowest resistance)?

[dgregor5]

Pete
They are all unique no-trade-horizontal-price-bands. Some may overlap, but that would just widen that specific no-trade-horizontal-price-band.
hope that makes sense. some are pivots, some are fibs, some are market profile numbers, etc. etc.

thx
David

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

If you only want one if statement then you will need to make a long string of conditions through the use of the OR operator.

if (blah blah || blah blah 2 || blah blah 3 || blah balh4)

[dgregor5]

thx Josh - that sounds logical. I think I can code around that.
DG