Touched

Library "Touched"

Breakout(zone, lookback)
  Tells if the zone has been broken on the current bar.
  Parameters:
    zone (Zone): The definitiin of the zone.
    lookback (int): How many bars to look back.
  Returns: a Touch object that tells if the zone has been broken up or down.

FalseBreakout(zone, lookback)
  Tells if the zone has a false breakout on the current bar.
  Parameters:
    zone (Zone): The definitiin of the zone.
    lookback (int): How many bars to look back.
  Returns: a Touch object that tells if the zone has had a false breakout up or down.

Retest(zone, lookback)
  Tells if the zone has been retested on the current bar.
  Parameters:
    zone (Zone): The definitiin of the zone.
    lookback (int): How many bars to look back.
  Returns: a Touch object that tells if the zone has been retested up or down.

Zone
  Fields:
    High (series__float)
    Low (series__float)
    BaseTime (series__integer)

Touch
  Fields:
    Up (series__bool)
    Down (series__bool)

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Remove zone creation time, not working at the moment.

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Re-add base time creation for the zone, used to stop looking for touches beyond the base creation.

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Fix bug in BaseTime comparing if bar time is higher than that, now checks if it's lower.

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- add 'Length' to 'Touch' type to let the user know how long the touch was

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- A touch is not considered a retest if it reached above/below the zone.

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- Add 'ExtremeIndexBack' to 'Touch' type that is set for false breakouts and retest for the highest/lowest price bar

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- Exit false breakout if a previous false breakout was found

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- Don't exit 'false breakout ' detection if the loop is on the first iteration

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- Fix bug on exiting false breakout to early