Buy/Sell/Short/Cover as arrays on the Watch window?

[Tomasz]

The variable type in AFL is dynamic (i.e. can change) if you assign a different value. For example:

Buy = Close > Open; // now Buy is an array
Buy = 0; // now Buy is a number (scalar)

For more information see:

When scalar becomes an array, aka. type coercion in AFL

Since the subject of data types surfaced in this thread: Send orders to IB on next bar (Intraday) Here are some comments regarding data types in AFL. While some users who familiarized a bit with array handling in AFL may think that everything is an array in AFL, that is not the case. The data type depends on value assigned to variable. If you assign scalar (number) the variable type will be scalar (floating point number, 4 bytes long). So if you assign a number to variable like this: var1 =…