This is Matt's take on engulfing candles and probably the definition to use for now.

bullEC = close[1] < open[1] and open <= close[1] and close >= open[1]
bearEC = close[1] > open[1] and open >= close[1] and close <= open[1]

Brian, I now know why you received this error. It is because you are associating the title of a plot with a string variable which happens when you use string L1 = str.tostring(maLength1) just before the plots. Titles need to be constant strings so change the 1st plot to plot(ma1, color=close >= ma1 ...

Hi Don,

Did you get a reply from Eric Thies to your query?

Are you getting any specific errors or messages? I notice that you are creating market orders but you don't have a qty in your strategy.entry statements so it won. The manual says... qty (series int/float) An optional parameter. Number of contracts/shares/lots/units to trade. The default value is 'N...

What is it specifically that you want assistance with? Your question is too broad as if you want someone to code it all for you.

You have converted L1 to a string which will have automatically embedded quotation marks. Try the following:

plot(ma1, color=close >= ma1 ? color.green : color.red, linewidth=1, title=L1)

Mart,

You're missing the closing brackets on the line
bcolor = if (if val > 0 and val > val[1]

Don, You can add the following to the end of your buy_trigger and sel_trigger lines and barstate.islast however, this will only paint the lines on the last real-time bar if it's a buy or sell. So if the last buy_trigger or sel_trigger is 1 or more bars ago this won't display. The only way I can thin...

Well done on working it out yourself. Sometimes a rewrite of a section of code is all it takes, albeit frustrating at times!

Yes quite a challenge. Sorry I don't have any further ideas on how to fix this for you.

Hopefully someone else can help with this one!