Periods reference
The 2 functions and 0 values of period: signature, effects, phase, cost and tested examples.
Read a field of the current or of an earlier day, week or month, written current(week).open or prior(day, 1).high.
Functions#
current#
current(period).field
A field of the current period so far.
- Effects: none: the result depends on the arguments only.
- Phase: every bar.
- Cost: a fixed number of operations.
- Examples: Earlier days and weeks.
prior#
prior(period [, n]).field
A field of the n-th finished period (day, week or month) before the current one.
- Effects: none: the result depends on the arguments only.
- Phase: every bar.
- Cost: a fixed number of operations.
- Examples: Daily pivot levels, Earlier days and weeks.