Maximum Value

[NH11]

Hi

I'm writing a scan that includes the current volume being the biggest of the last 5 (incl the current).

I know I can use 

but it's cumbersome. Is there a better way. 

I tried BarVolume = Max(0, 4, BarVolume) but that has given me errors.

Any ideas please.

 

NH.

[Mike Medved]

You're getting an error because you're redefining BarVolume. Don't do that

var MaxVol = Max(0, 4, BarVolume);

will work.

[NH11]

OK, I tried that but still getting errors. How do I define the variable MaxVol?

[Mike Medved]

MaxVol would be Double, but the below would work too - doing "var" just sets the type to whatever the type of Max function is.

var MaxVol = Max(0, 4, BarVolume);

[NH11]

OK, managed to sort it out, many thanks.

A few other questions please:

1. Is there a command for the bar's range (High - Low), or would I have to make a variable for that too.

2. Is it possible to round DOWN a number. So 5.3074 to 2 decimal places is 5.30 not 5.31.

3. In my scan results can I have a column for yesterday's high, I only see yesterday's close or volume in column chooser.

 

Many thanks

NH

[Mike Medved]

1. There is no variable but doing High-Low works doesn't it?

2. Well. In your case, do Math.Floor(Num*100)/100

3. There is no data to get yesterday's high from in the L1 feed. That can be figured out from the historical intraday data, and used in the scan by selecting a Horizontal Line indicator and setting it to Previous High.