LowestBar and HighestBar return incompatible type

Author: sourkraut

Creation Date: 7/31/2013 9:22 PM

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sourkraut

7/31/2013 9:22 PM

I get errors from the following code, if I try to make the "barToo" an int type.
I would have thought the purpose of the subject indicators are, to discover a bar number, so one can retrieve other values associated with that bar.

However, C# will not convert FROM double TO int.

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The above debug statement returned

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on July 30, 2013, when run on AAPL stock.

Clearly the numbers match, but the types don't.
Am I missing something?

TIA

Eb

streak

7/31/2013 9:52 PM

With the cursor after LowestBar.Value use Ctrl+Sft+Space. It shows up as type double.

Try;

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Eugene

8/1/2013 1:48 AM

Also in its online documentation, LowestBar:

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QUOTE:
However, C# will not convert FROM double TO int.

A double can not be equal to integer without converting with Convert.ToInt32 (and rounding) or casting with (int) (and truncating) first because a double may contain a floating point value.

sourkraut

8/1/2013 8:30 AM

Thanks, the link http://www2.wealth-lab.com/WL5WIKI/LowestBar.ashx implies, that

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will give me an int keyBar.

I'll try this asap.

Eb

Eugene

8/1/2013 8:44 AM

Eb, this is not going to work. Just follow streak's suggestion.

sourkraut

8/1/2013 8:23 PM

With a slight modification, it did work:

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However, Streak's code:

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generates a compile error, that you cannot cast a double to int,

Eb

Eugene

8/2/2013 1:47 AM

QUOTE:
generates a compile error, that you cannot cast a double to int,

Not at all. No compile error in 6.5. (Actually, even a possible difference in installed .NET framework versions couldn't explain that.) streak's statement is perfectly valid from syntax standpoint.

sourkraut

8/2/2013 8:29 AM

Sorry, you are right. I had not tested that approach in 6.5 yet. Only upgraded from 6.4? yesterday.

sourkraut

9/4/2013 8:33 PM

Streak, your suggestion works after all.
I have no idea what caused the compile error. Though sometimes I get gremlins in the editor, that disappear, if I close and reload the strategy.

Thank you.

As to why a bar number is returned as a double, I will refrain from compllaining about it, to avoid distraction from my many other complaints.