What are the differences bewteen these 3 varibles please?

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Hi

I was wondering can someone quicly outline these:

1) PRICE_CLOSE

2) PRICE_OPEN

3) PRICE_TYPICAL

Thanks

[qjol]

Constant	Value	Description
PRICE_CLOSE	0	Close price.
PRICE_OPEN	1	Open price.
PRICE_HIGH	2	High price.
PRICE_LOW	3	Low price.
PRICE_MEDIAN	4	Median price, (high+low)/2.
PRICE_TYPICAL	5	Typical price, (high+low+close)/3.
PRICE_WEIGHTED	6	Weighted close price, (high+low+close+close)/4.

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Hi

Execellent, thank you for the pointer.

I have a MACD alerter that alerts me when the indicator has gone into buy or sell mode.

To prevent the alert popping up all the time it has this added:

bool newbar()

  {
//----
    static datetime NewTime = 0;
    if(NewTime != Time[0])
      {
        NewTime = Time[0];
        return(true);
      }
//----
    return(false);
  }

The only problem I am getting is that it only alerts me after the bar has closed which is sometimes too late, how can I get this to work on the current open bar?

Thanks

Antony

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don't using newbar on alert condition.. because that means alert only called when a new bar is formed.. so why it only give alerts at the beginning of a new bar.

[qjol]

search for alert once

EXAMPLE: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/128463

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Ah right, thats a start then lol, could anyone show me what to use instead, as I am a newbie with programming.

Thanks

Antony

[brewmanz]

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