I'm relatively new to Pine and was having trouble with a couple of things.
So I've got a indicator that I want to look back for the last 5 full days of activity, however not each stock trades in the premarket/afterhours so I want to be able to look back say 5 days and then calculate the number of bars on the time frame (i.e. for a 5 min or hourly resolution). That way I can calculate the number of bars present on the current ticker for that time frame and adjust my indicator length (instead of just having a constant figure of 80 bars or whatever).
The second thing I want to do is only have the indicator update on the completion of a full bar (for example the hourly resolution). So I want it to only calculate up to x-1 bars. Right now I'm finding that it's updating on each new tick. ( I was able to figure this one out, just changed it from i= 0 to length -1 to i=1 to length).
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks, A