Issue with HA Indicator Signals

[mfuetterer]

Hi,
yet another Heiken Ashi question:

See indicator Visible block:

I draw a green dotted line, whenever HA changes from Bull to Bear and a blue dotted line whenever HA changes from bear to bull.

Having said that I would have expected a green line at candle 9:

Signal fired at candle 16. Why does it not fire at 9?

Mic

[mfuetterer]

Maybe I'm getting this wrong.

I thought "close" means it checks the state on the finalized candle.
What I see, though is that the lions are drawn based on the open value.

confused

[fxDreema]

"Close" means the Close part of the Heiken candle. You are trying to get Close value of a Bull Heiken Ashi candle when the previous Heiken Ashi candle is Bear (the opposite).

You can always use "Trace" block to check the value returned by any thing that you can chose in Condition and similar blocks.

[mfuetterer]

So how do I detect bull2bear or bear2bull changes with finished candles?

With regular candles I could use the index (1=the last one, 2= the one before and so on)
With HA I don't see something equivalant.

What I see with HA is, that it fires whenever a change happens, while building the candle. This might or might be not valid for the final candle.

So what I need is something like "HA Candle 1 was bear and HA Candle 2 was bull => changed", so I can attach this to "once per bar" block.

Is this achievable?

And I'm not sure, how trace can help me out here.