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Indicator longer than the data series?

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Hi,


I am a newbie with MQL5 and I am just familiarizing with the fundamentals.

I am debugging on historical datat (not runtime). I do not understand why the function Barcalculated applied to a simple SMA returns 1 element more than the function Bars applied to the source time series.

In other words, seemeingly I have, let's say, 100 data bars and 101 indicator values. Weird.

To be more precise , this is happening when I use a closed pack of historical data, while everything is aligned with runtime testing.

Might it be that the function Barcalculated counts also the last , open bar not included in the "closed" packet?

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