Learning: how to get the High and Low price of a specific bar?

Custom Indicators
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I am teaching myself how to code indicators.
How do I get values from a specific bar? For example, if I want the high price of the 5th bar back from the current bar, how would I do that? How can I choose that specific bar? How can I find the high price?
Thanks for helping me.

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It really depends on what you’re trying to accomplish. Below are two different scenarios.

You can add something like this to your map{} and remember to add It to the return{}:

map{}

        const high5CandlesAgo = history.get(i - 5).high();
        const low5CandlesAgo = history.get(i - 5).low();

return{}

            high5CandlesAgo: high5CandlesAgo,
            low5CandlesAgo: low5CandlesAgo

and if you want too calculate a level of the current candle relative to the previous candles high or low etc…add it to the return and you can do something like this:

return{}

            high: d.high(),
            open: d.open(),
            close: d.close(),
            low: d.low(),

function trendPlotter

   if (next !== null) {
                        // Calculate the center point between the prior high and the next candle's open
                        const centerPoint = (prior.high + next.open) / 2;

hope that gives you some ideas…

3

Thankyou !

I will work on this soon

Right now I am overwhelmed learning about Tradovate.

Relatively new user. No real computer coding skills but can hack

Quick Question.

What are the steps to load this on Tradovate?

Example where do I start to copy and paste code in order to build an indicator.

I can do this on ThinkorSwim all the time, but for some reason I am not immediately

Grasping the steps to place a new custom indicator on my platform

Are you able to quickly give me a 1,2,3 example? If so , I would greatly appreciate it.

Best wishes.

Fred

7/12/2023 11:58 PM

:blush:

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i know this forum is dead and this is an old post but this isnt working?

if i use the history.get to return any index further than one bar back i am getting an undefined error for any bar properties (open/high/low etc…).

if i return the previous bar (i - 1) or use history.prior() i am able to access whatever i want.

running the following code:

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returns this:
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if i change the index:

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i get this:
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on the off chance that one of the 3 people who still check this forum knows, is there really no way to access data further than one bar back?

5

To get the high price of the 5th bar back from the current bar in Tradovate, use:

csharp

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double highPrice = High[5];

This retrieves the high of the bar 5 periods ago.

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6

im trying to build an indicator within tradovates javascript environment, not using their api so this does not work.

specifically i am trying to access the profile data(bidvol/askvol) from previous bars

7

I am code developer and can assist you with this. if you send me an email on timmfain@gmail.com, we can see how to implement your requirements.