only once;;;;

[Ankit Jain]

hello im making a inside bar breakout stratagy.

 

it check for inside bar before 0th candle...(latest candle being formed);

 

but how do i make sure it run code only single time in each 0th candle formation??

 

here is my code::-----

if(High[1]<=High[2] && Low[1]>=Low[2])
double ub=High[2];
double lb=Low[2];

 want this to be run only on start of new bar once....not on each tick of the 0th candle being formed..

[Simon Gniadkowski]

ankit29030:

here is my code::-----

 want this to be run only on start of new bar once....not on each tick of the 0th candle being formed..

Remember the time for bar 1

 

Check the time of bar 1 if is the same as the time you remembered it has not changed . . .  if it is different you have a new bar,  before you move on remember this new time for bar 1 . . .  then do the stuff you wanted to do once per new bar.

[William Roeder]

ankit29030: want this to be run only on start of new bar once....

Use this and you would have found this (updated minutes ago)

[Ankit Jain]

WHRoeder:
Use this and you would have found this (updated minutes ago)

int start()

  {
static  int insideflag=0;
  
if(iTime(NULL,0, 1) != bartime)
   {
   if(High[1]<=High[2] && Low[1]>=Low[2])
{
double ub=High[2];
double lb=Low[2];
insideflag=1;
}
if(Close[1]>ub && insideflag==1)
{
SendMail("UPPER BREAKOUT","UPPER BREAKOUT");
insideflag=0;
}
if(Close[1]<lb && insideflag==1)
{
SendMail("LOWER BREAKOUT","LOWER BREAKOUT");
insideflag=0;
}
if(Close[2]>=Open[2]&& Close[2]-Open[2]>0.0004 && Close[1]<=Open[2])
SendMail("bearish engulfing","bearish engulfing");

if(Close[2]<=Open[2] && Open[2]-Close[2]>0.0004 && Close[1]>=Open[2])
SendMail("bullish engulfing","bullish engulfing");

bartime = iTime(NULL, 0, 1);
   }

it executes many times during current bar in H4...wanted to check cond on new H4 bar formation once... 

[William Roeder]

ankit29030:

it executes many times during current bar in H4...wanted to check cond on new H4 bar formation once... 

if(iTime(NULL,0, 1) != bartime)

Bartime not defined. Bartime never updated. Of course it executes many times per bar. Read the link posted.

[Ankit Jain]

WHRoeder:
Bartime not defined. Bartime never updated. Of course it executes many times per bar. Read the link posted.

no sir i have made it global

datetime bartime;

[Simon Gniadkowski]

ankit29030:

no sir i have made it global

datetime bartime;

What timeframe chart are you running this code on ?