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Thinking in Pine - Time Series Special Cases

Hello Everyone,

Welcome back to "Thinking in Pine" short video series. In this session, we have discussed few special cases of time series variables and using historical operator within local scope.

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🎲 Summary of our today's discussion

How historical operator works for variables defined inside an conditional block
How historical operator works for variables defined in a loop.

🎯 Example Program Used

Pine Script®

// Time series for variables within a condition varip showLogInLoop = true if(bar_index%3 == 0) specialBarIndex = bar_index if(bar_index > last_bar_index-3 and showLogInLoop) log.info('Current and Previous special bar index are : {0} and {1}', specialBarIndex, specialBarIndex[1]) showLogInLoop := false // Time series of variables within a loop arrayOfX = array.new<int>() arrayOfLastX = array.new<int>() for i = 1 to 5 x = i*10 arrayOfX.push(x) arrayOfLastX.push(x[1]) if(barstate.islastconfirmedhistory) log.info('Array of X : {0}', arrayOfX) log.info('Array of last X : {0}', arrayOfLastX)

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