Hi All

I'm starting the process of learning EL and have been watching videos, reading the manuals, and making simple modifications to existing indicators in Multicharts. Most of the mods have gone well, but one is kinda puzzling. I took the Pivot High and Pivot Low indicators and combined them in one script. It works fine for a while, finding and plotting the proper pivots, then at a random moment, the pivots are displaced vertically on the chart. I've attached two images, one shows them working and the other, not.

 

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inputs: PriceHi ( High ), PriceLo ( Low ), LeftStrength( 3 ), RightStrength( 3 ); condition1 = PivotHighVSBar( 1, PriceHi, LeftStrength, RightStrength, RightStrength + 1 ) <> -1 ; if condition1 then begin Plot1[RightStrength]( High[RightStrength], "PivotHi" ) ; once print (PriceHi) ; Alert ; once Print (condition1); end else NoPlot( 1 ) ; condition2 = PivotLowVSBar( 1, PriceLo, LeftStrength, RightStrength, RightStrength + 1 ) <> -1 ; if condition2 then begin Plot2[RightStrength]( Low[RightStrength], "PivotLo" ) ; Alert ; once Print (condition2); end else NoPlot( 1 ) ;

Here they are:

TrendFirst,

check the last line of your script, you allow the low pivot to remove high pivot plots.

Regards,

ABCTG

ABCTG 

TrendFirst, check the last line of your script, you allow the low pivot to remove high pivot plots. Regards, ABCTG

Ah. I knew it was something silly. Thank you.

One other question.....during debugging I was attempting to print out the pivots. Apparently I don't know how to identify/describe them, because the numbers I was getting were not the same pivots that plotted on the chart. Here is my print statement for the high pivots:

 

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Print (condition1); Print (PivotHi);

Any idea why this wouldn't give the correct pivots?

TrendFirst,

in the code you posted there is no variable named PivotHi, so trying to print a non existing variable should result in an error message from the compiler. For the high pivot you can print at the same point where you wrote "once print (PriceHi)", but instead use

 

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Print("PivotHi: " + High[RightStrength]);

Regards,

ABCTG