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When I am in the event "OnData(Slice data)", is there a way for me to get Close from 5 candles ago, or do I need to track the values in the array?
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Jing Wu
You can create a rolling window with the length 5 in Initialize() and save the bar data in a rolling window in OnData().
public override void Initialize() { // Create a Rolling Window to keep the 5 decimal closeWindow = new RollingWindow<decimal>(5); } // In OnData, update the rolling windows public override void OnData(Slice data) { // Add bar close in the rolling window closeWindow.Add(data[symbol].Close);Then you can retrieve the close value with the index of the window. Before that, please use "closeWindow.IsReady" to check if the rolling window is fully initialized.
For details, please see the documentation
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Dmitriy
So I am observing that when RollingWindow objectr reaches it's size it begins to populate from 0 again. I thought it would continue to populate the most recent value in the last index and shift all values down.
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Jing Wu
The rolling window populates the most recent value. You obtain the zero value probably because the price "data[symbol].Close" is zero. It is better to add a check
public override void OnData(Slice data) { // Add bar close in the rolling window if data.ContainsKey(symbol): closeWindow.Add(data[symbol].Close); }If the issue still exists, please attach your algorithm so we can further help with your algorithm.
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Dmitriy
No. I was watching it debugger. Let's say I setup RollingWindow<decimal>(3). I have close values of 20, 21, 22, 23, 24... So what I see is that for first 3 values the objectis populated as [0] = 20, [1] = 21, [2] = 22, and on 4th value it restarts at 0, so I see object as [0] = 23, [1] = 21, [2] = 22
What I expected was that values would shift, so I would see this [0] = 21, [1] = 22, [3] = 23. So basically I would always have the most recent 3 values in the object.
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Jing Wu
You should always have the most recent value in the rolling window. Please read the documentation
The most recent bar always has the index 0. For example, you have a list of close as 20 (2018-06-01), 21 (2018-06-02), 22(2018-06-03), 23(2018-06-04), 24(2018-06-05), window[0] is always replaced with the most recent bar price.
2018-06-01, window[0]=20
2018-06-02, window[0]=21, window[1]=20
2018-06-03, window[0]=22, window[1]=21, window[2]=20 (Now the rolling window is ready)
2018-06-04, window[0]=23, window[1]=22, window[2]=21
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