Time Delay (to Avoid Whipsaw) for EasyLanguage / PowerLanguage?

[ONE- 10]

Hello,

 

I am having trouble coding a time delay after a trade occurs (buy or sell, open or close) to avoid my automated strategy making a ton of trades as the price action whipsaws and signals my indicators true/false. Can anyone provide some suggestions here?

 

For instance, (I will set a time delay of say 15 minutes)... if my combo of indicators goes true at 10:20AM and a Long position is opened, I don't want these indicators to be evaluated again before 10:35AM. I want my strategy to run in real time and not on bar close b/c of the action I'm missing in that bar. However, right now all that my strategy will do is rack up commission fees.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated! I'm using Multicharts.

 

Thanks!!

[BlueHorseshoe 10]

I think the following should work, although I'm not at a computer with TradeStation on at the minute so I can't check it. And if you give it a couple of days a better programmer than me will post a better method!

 

The number of bars will prescribe the time delay before new orders are considered (i.e. if you leave this set to 3 then this will cause a 15 minute delay on a five minute chart or a 45 minute delay on a 15 minute chart).

 

Inputs:
TimeDelayBars(3);

Variables:
BarsSinceLastEntry(0);

If Marketposition<>0 then
BarsSinceLastEntry=Barssinceentry
Else
BarsSinceLastEntry=BarsSinceLastEntry[1]+1;

If BarsSinceLastEntry>=TimeDelay then begin

{ whatever it is you’re wanting to do following a time delay goes here }

End;

 

Another approach might just be to create a lagging or 'displaced' set of indicators.

 

Hope that's helpful.

 

BlueHorseshoe