Sorry if this has been answered I searched the forums and watched many of the videos but without figuring it out.

I want to take the last 5 candles as an array, iterate it through a loop, and take the current high and low values and store them into variables. This is so I can calculate the range of the last 5 candles.

I tried using the : Loop, If High>Loop High, assign High with loophigh method but that just sets a highest and lowest throughout the entire historical test until new high/low is made.
I tried using this method I attached but that does not work either. Thank you again for the support

Hi there,

If you need to use each high and low variables of every candle within your range, then you don't need to use any loop as you can achieve that using couple of 'get historical candle' blocks using shift variable every-time (if you want to retrieve a reasonable number of historical candles) but if you need more, then you have to implement a counter that will increment the value of your shift value dynamically.

hey amine, I just want the high and low of the range itself, not the high and low of each candle

here is my current set up , it just keeps updating the highest high and lowest low, I JUST want the highest high and lowest low of the 5 candle range preceding candle 0

Hi

Neverless the situation, you need to go over the high and low of any of the candles if you want to get at end the range between them.
I made one fast try at VJF, not tested, but it will be something like the vfs i put in annex. Your code must continue at the end cycle node of loop.

I hope that helps.

Regards

JL

EDIT: I made a change to calculate the range in pricevalue... if you need pips, need to multiply the range variable with pipscale.
If you ask why i place shift = 1 in get candles, is because with shift 0 you get the value of the candle in construction (not finished yet).

EDIT2: Do not forget to reset the values of high variable to 0 and low variable to 999 before use.

Hiya,

Here you go