JIMBERG

/_SECTION_BEGIN("JIMBERG");
EntrySignal = C > ( LLV( L, 20 ) + 2 * ATR( 10 ) ); 
ExitSignal = C < ( HHV( H, 20 ) - 2 * ATR( 10 ) ); 
Color = IIf( EntrySignal, colorBlue, IIf( ExitSignal, colorOrange, colorGrey50 )); 
TrailStop = HHV( C - 2 * ATR(10), 15 ); 
ProfitTaker = EMA( H, 13 ) + 2 * ATR(10); 

/* plot price chart and stops */ 
Plot( TrailStop, "Trailing stop", colorBrown, styleThick | styleLine  ); 
Plot( ProfitTaker, "Profit taker", colorLime, styleThick ); 
Plot( C, "Price", color, styleCandle  ); 

/* plot color ribbon */ 
Plot( 2, "", Color, styleArea | styleOwnScale | styleNoLabel, -0.1, 50 );


  /* **********************************

Code to automatically identify pivots

********************************** */

// -- what will be our lookback range for the hh and ll?
farback=Param("How Far back to go",100,50,5000,10);
nBars = Param("Number of bars", 12, 5, 40);

// -- Title.

/* Title = Name() + " (" + StrLeft(FullName(), 15) + ") O: " + Open + ", 

H: " + High + ", L: " + Low + ", C: " + Close; */

// -- Plot basic candle chart

PlotOHLC(Open, High, Low, Close, 

"\n" + "O = " + O + "\n"+"H = "+ H + "\n"+"L = " + L 

+ "\n"+"C",

color, styleCandle); 

GraphXSpace=7;

// -- Create 0-initialized arrays the size of barcount

aHPivs = H - H;

aLPivs = L - L;

// -- More for future use, not necessary for basic plotting

aHPivHighs = H - H;

aLPivLows = L - L;

aHPivIdxs = H - H;

aLPivIdxs = L - L;

nHPivs = 0;

nLPivs = 0;

lastHPIdx = 0;

lastLPIdx = 0;

lastHPH = 0;

lastLPL = 0;

curPivBarIdx = 0;

// -- looking back from the current bar, how many bars 

// back were the hhv and llv values of the previous 

// n bars, etc.?

aHHVBars = HHVBars(H, nBars);

aLLVBars = LLVBars(L, nBars);

aHHV = HHV(H, nBars);

aLLV = LLV(L, nBars);

// -- Would like to set this up so pivots are calculated back from

// last visible bar to make it easy to "go back" and see the pivots

// this code would find. However, the first instance of 

// _Trace output will show a value of 0

aVisBars = Status("barvisible");

nLastVisBar = LastValue(Highest(IIf(aVisBars, BarIndex(), 0)));

_TRACE("Last visible bar: " + nLastVisBar);

// -- Initialize value of curTrend

curBar = (BarCount-1);

curTrend = "";

if (aLLVBars[curBar] < 

aHHVBars[curBar]) {

curTrend = "D";

}

else {

curTrend = "U";

}

// -- Loop through bars. Search for 

// entirely array-based approach

// in future version

for (i=0; i lastHPIdx) {

// -- Bar and price info for candidate pivot

candIdx = curBar - aHHVBars[curBar];

candPrc = aHHV[curBar]; 

if (

lastHPH < candPrc AND

candIdx > lastLPIdx AND

candIdx < curBar) {


// -- OK, we'll add this as a pivot...

aHPivs[candIdx] = 1;

// ...and then rearrange elements in the 

// pivot information arrays

for (j=0; j candPrc AND

candIdx > lastHPIdx AND

candIdx < curBar) {


// -- OK, we'll add this as a pivot...

aLPivs[candIdx] = 1;

// ...and then rearrange elements in the 

// pivot information arrays

for (j=0; j