MTF Coding-placing 5 min trade after closing below previous hour low

Hello,

Instead of relying on others do code for me... I am taking up coding myself... and got my EA placing orders... but I am trying to fine tune for when it should take trades.

I want to place a trade on a 5 min trade if it has EVER closed below a price level, say previous hour low.

How would I go about this?

I just cannot get the logic correct... it needs to check all 5 min bars for current hour that has not finished, but I cannot figure out how to get the current time open for the 5 min bar and do a check for all 5 min bars up to current hour.

Thanks,

Vip

One can use the iHigh/iLow/iBarShift/iHighest/iLowest functions for that.
See the manual for more info.

Examples:
// Find a bar based on a given time and get the high/low for that bar
dHigh=iHigh(NULL,PERIOD_M5,iBarShift(NULL,PERIOD_M5,tStartBar) );
dLow=iLow(NULL,PERIOD_M5,iBarShift(NULL,PERIOD_M5,tStartBar) );

// Calc High and low for specified nr of bars
dHigh=iHigh(NULL,PERIOD_M5,iHighest(NULL,PERIOD_M5,MODE_HIGH,iNrOfBars,iShiftBeg)); dLow=iLow(NULL,PERIOD_M5,iLowest(NULL,PERIOD_M5,MODE_LOW,iNrOfBars,iShiftBeg));

Thanks... this is what I am trying to achieve:

While current hour has not finished (check all 5 min bars begining from open hour to end of this hour)
{
if (close of any 5 min bar below LOWPRICE)
I will do something;
else if (close of any 5 min bar above HIGHPRICE)
I will do something else;
}

I hope it makes sense.

Regards,
Vip

Ok great... got it to work... for those that are relying on others to code for you... don't... go away and learn it yourself... like I have, I did programming at Uni, so I knew the basic+ (just above basic) and now am slowly slowly coding my own EA... though this has taken a few hours to sort out the below cause I could not work out what functions I needed to get the correct values so I can code... once you know what functions provide what data... it can be done... just stick at it... good luck!

Regards,
Vip

int start()
{
//current open hour
datetime currhour=iTime(NULL,PERIOD_H1,0);

//Check 5 min TF for current open hour
int shift=iBarShift(NULL,PERIOD_M5,currhour);

//Print every bar from current to last bar in 5 min TF - to confirm I have this correct
for(int i=0; i<=shift; i++)
{
Print(shift-i);
}

return(0);
}