@hayseed I was gonna have quick questions about the code. When I implement this in an EA, it gets extremely slow. Back testing becomes at least 20 times slower. Is this normal or would there be a trick to make it faster?

Now I got it, many thanks!

I assumed "recount your orders" was a comment so I put "//--" in front of it. But still getting "Variable not defined" errors for "count"

I use SuperTrend to identify turning points (past two tops or past two bottoms) and then I check MACD levels at these points to measure the divergence level. I find most divergence indis very inefficient, that's how I've been using it for a long ...

Thank you so much for spending time on this. Just checked but got me confused, is it prompting the distance to the very last crossover or the one before? When I back test and do the count sometimes it's the last cross sometimes the one before. I ...

Since I'm looking for actual crosses, rather than iLow iHigh, should I use; (iOpen(NULL,0,i)<ma && iClose(NULL,0,i)>ma) and in this case there are going to be two crosses in the past, first one that happened X bars ago and second one just happened ...

To be honest I haven't used ADX in my trading before, someone gave me that idea and I was trying to test it to see how it works, anyway using +di and -di seems more useful. I'll give it a try, many thanks.

That explains it! many thanks.

That's why I have MACD to find the direction, basically I'm looking at points where ADX is greater than 30 lets say for instance and starts descending (means exhaustion to me) and then using MACD to find the overbought/sold levels and direction as ...

Well I look at the main ADX line and the moment it starts decreasing I'm taking that as the reversal point. I thought these two lines below would give me the past two values of the main ADX line. As Fxdaytrader mentioned I'm not interested in ...

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

It actually opens positions but when I look back for instance a positioned was opened even though adx_2 wasn't less than adx_1. For some reason after I added the macd condition adx condition stopped working.

Sorry I forgot to put, I have adx as well in the condition but for some reason it's not doing the job. if(use_macd && use_adx) { if(adx>30 && adx_2<adx_1 && macd>overbought && macd_1<macd_2) return(sell); if(adx>30 && adx_2<adx_1 && macd<oversold && ...

@FerruFx I tried doing it for MACD as well, I'm not getting a compiling error but doesn't seem like working either. Basically I'm trying to find the direction of MACD by comparing MACD at last candle against MACD at 5 candles back. double macd_1 = ...

did the trick, many thanks!

Problem solved! many thanks, mem