Ihighest & Lowest return strange values?!

HighestV , LowestV  and BalancePoint are double? If are int, not work

High and Low work relative to the current chart . . if you run this on H1 and iHighest returns 2 then you will get the high value for the bar number 2 on H1 . . .

Use this instead, iHigh & iLow then you can specify the TimeFrame

Hi Pannek,

You are absolutly right to pick up on that, i forgot to mention that i am running this on the aussie SPI whcih has no decimal place though. Thats why the int. Thanks for the response.

Thanks Raptor, now i understand. Much appreciated.

Hi Raptor,

I spoke to soon... I must be missing something.... I tried changing the High to iHigh and now it tells me when i try to compile that a [ is expected,,,

What am i doing wrong?

Did you read the Documentation on iHigh and iLow ? click the links in my post . . & show your code that doesn't work . . .

HighestV = High[iHighest( NULL, PERIOD_D1, MODE_HIGH, 3, 1)];

iHighest returns the highest D1 bar (for the last 3 days)

High[x] return the highest price for the chart bar x.

Oil and water, don't mix.

int    iHiD1    = iHighest( NULL, PERIOD_D1, MODE_HIGH, 3, 1);
double HighestV = iHigh(NULL, PERIOD_D1, iHiD1);

or, convert to the chart

datetime Today     = iTime(NULL, PERIOD_D1, 0),
         FourDays  = iTime(NULL, PERIOD_D1, 3);
int      iBod      = iBarShift(NULL,0, Today),    // Beginning of the day.
         iFour     = iBarShift(NULL,0, FourDays), // First bar 4 days ago.
         iYesterday= iBod + 1,                    // Last bar of yesterday.
         n3days    = iFour - iYesterday + 1,      // Bars inclusive.
int      iHigh     = iHighest( NULL,0, MODE_HIGH, n3days, iYesterday); // Chart index
double   HighestV  = High[iHigh];                                      // Chart high

int BalancePoint(double C)
{   
   int    iHiD1    = iHighest( NULL, PERIOD_D1, MODE_HIGH, 3, 1);
   double HighestV = iHigh(NULL, PERIOD_D1, iHiD1);
   int    iLoD1    = iLowest( NULL, PERIOD_D1, MODE_HIGH, 3, 1);
   double LowestV  = iLow(NULL, PERIOD_D1, iHiD1);
   double Bal = (LowestV+((HighestV - LowestV)/2));
   Print("Balance.......(",Bal,")"); 
   if (C > Bal){return (Above);}
   if (C < Bal){return (Below);}
   return(0);  
}

Sorry about the late reply guys.

Thanks for your help.

Based on both of your suggestions this is what i have so far.... unfortunately still it is not producing the correct result when testing on a 4hr time frame....

The "C" is the Close of the precvious bar from the main program.... The function works correctly in that it returns above and below, but the balance line seems to vary from occasionally correct to maybe a full days range off the mark,,,,

If you have any suggestions that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again!

Why are you using the Bar number for the Highest bar to get the value for the lowest bar ?

double LowestV  = iLow(NULL, PERIOD_D1,  iHiD1  );

You need to learn how to find copy & paste errors . . . we all make them :-)

yep. Also

double Bal = (LowestV+((HighestV - LowestV)/2));
double Bal = (LowestV+HighestV)/2); // Same thing w/ less roundoff error.