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Issue fixed, thank you for reading.

Hello Everybody, I am working on the Tuorial 26 from Markplex: http://www.markplex.com/tutorial26.php It works great. I am trying to refine this indicator by adding another condition: if the trendline goes through a candlestick, then the trendline should be plotted using dots, in other words, if the trendline value is higher than the low of a price at any time, then the trendline style becomes dots instead of dashes. I understand I need to programme a loop that will reproduce the values of a trendline at each bar between the two pivot points, and compare them to the low of each bar to check whether the trendline should be plotted using dots or dashes. Here is what I have written to far: // http://markplex.com/tutorial26.php inputs : PriceL(Low), StochLength(7), SmoothingLength1(3), SmoothingLength2(3), SmoothingType(1), Length(20), LeftStrength(3), RightStrength(1), BarTol(3); vars: ofastk(0), oFastD(0), oSlowk(0), oSlowD(0), oPivotPrice1(0), oPivotBar1(0), oPivotPrice2(0), oPivotBar2(0), oPivotPrice3(0), oPivotBar3(0), oPivotPrice4(0), oPivotBar4(0), tlslope(0), bback(0), tlvalue(0), pricepivotcondition1(false), pricepivotcondition2(false), stochpivotcondition1(false), stochpivotcondition2(false), stochvalue(0), tlstoch(0), tlprice(0); stochvalue=Stochastic(H,L,C,StochLength,SmoothingLength1,SmoothingLength2,SmoothingType,ofastk,ofastd,oslowk,oslowd); //Determine if pivots in the stochstic have occurred stochpivotcondition1 = Pivot(oslowd,Length,LeftStrength,RightStrength,1,-1,oPivotPrice1,oPivotBar1)<>-1; stochpivotcondition2 = Pivot(oslowd,Length,LeftStrength,RightStrength,2,-1,oPivotPrice2,oPivotBar2)<>-1; //Determine if pivots in the price have occurred pricepivotcondition1 = Pivot(PriceL,Length,LeftStrength,RightStrength,1,-1,oPivotPrice3,oPivotBar3)<>-1; pricepivotcondition2 = Pivot(PriceL,Length,LeftStrength,RightStrength,2,-1,oPivotPrice4,oPivotBar4)<>-1; if pricepivotcondition1 and pricepivotcondition2 and stochpivotcondition1 and stochpivotcondition2 and (absvalue(oPivotbar1-oPivotBar3)<BarTol) and (absvalue(oPivotbar2-oPivotBar4)<BarTol) and (oPivotBar3 = RightStrength or oPivotbar1 = RightStrength) and (oPivotPrice3<=oPivotPrice4 and oPivotPrice1>oPivotPrice2) and barstatus(1)=2 then begin tlprice= tl_new_S(D[oPivotBar4],Time_S[oPivotBar4],L[oPivotBar4],D[oPivotBar3],Time_s[oPivotBar3],L[oPivotBar3]); tl_setcolor(tlstoch,Red); tl_setsize (tlstoch,1); tlstoch= tl_new_Self_s(D[oPivotBar1],Time_S[oPivotBar1],oPivotPrice1,D[oPivotBar2],Time_s[oPivotBar2],oPivotPrice2); tl_setcolor(tlprice,Green); tl_setsize (tlprice,1); {tlslope = (oPivotPrice3 - oPivotPrice4) / AbsValue(oPivotbar3-oPivotBar4); //value of the slope value1 = oPivotPrice4*tlslope; if value1 >= low[oPivotBar4-3] then tl_setstyle(tlprice,2) else tl_setstyle(tlprice,3);} {tlvalue = oPivotPrice4 * (AbsValue(oPivotBar3 - oPivotBar4)-1) * tlslope; //the -1 is for the bar just before the oPivotBar3 if tlvalue > low[oPivotBar3+1] then tl_setstyle(tlprice,2) else tl_setstyle(tlprice,3); //+1 for bar just before oPivotBar3} value80 = absvalue(oPivotBar3-oPivotBar4); //print(opivotbar2,";",opivotbar4,";",opivotbar1,";",opivotbar3,";",value80); tlslope = (oPivotPrice3 - oPivotPrice4) / AbsValue(oPivotbar3-oPivotBar4); //value of the slope for bback = oPivotBar4 - 1 downto bback = oPivotBar3 + 1 begin value1 = oPivotPrice3 - (tlslope*bback); //print(date:7:0,";",time:4:0,";",bback,";",tlslope:0:6,";",value1:0:6); if value1[bback] > low[bback] then tl_setstyle(tlprice,3) else tl_setstyle(tlprice,2); end; end; Plot1(oSlowD); I am having several problems: 1. It does not properly identify the conditions to plot dashes or dots. 2. if you print the values of bback in the loop, it only looks at 3 candles back 4. the loop only works with downto, regardless from/to oPivot3/4... Would you mind having a look and telling me what is wrong? Or direct me to a tutorial that eexplains how to properly write this? Many thanks,