How to plot Buy/Sell signals on Range High/Low

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#1

I have been trying to add signals to the Range High and Low that I've plotted. I want the respective Buy and sell signals whenever the price crosses above or below the N days High Low. Here I have used the cross function but have also tried the same using comparison operators on close and RH/RL. None of them is working. the code does not give any errors but it does not plot any signals on chart either. What am I doing wrong here?

/* 
Objective:
1. add chart settings
2. add price
3. consider range high and low of previous 4 days
4. add lines to the highest and lowest points.
5. add signals when price crosses above or below the lines
*/


_SECTION_BEGIN("Price");
	SetChartOptions(0,chartShowArrows|chartShowDates); //Enables the X-axis to the chart
	Plot(Close,"Price",colorDefault,styleCandle);
	
_SECTION_END();

_SECTION_BEGIN("RHRL");
	RH = Plot(Ref(HHV(High, 4),-1),"RH", colorred);
	RL = Plot(Ref(LLV(Low, 4), -1),"RL", colorGreen);
		
		Buy = Cross(Close,RH);
		Sell = Cross(RL, Close);		

			PlotShapes(IIf(Buy, shapeSquare, shapeNone),colorGreen, 0, H, Offset=-40);
			PlotShapes(IIf(Buy, shapeSquare, shapeNone),colorLime, 0,H, Offset=-50);
			PlotShapes(IIf(Buy, shapeUpArrow, shapeNone),colorWhite, 0,H, Offset=-45);
			PlotShapes(IIf(Sell, shapeSquare, shapeNone),colorRed, 0, L, Offset=-40);
			PlotShapes(IIf(Sell, shapeSquare, shapeNone),colorLime, 0,L, Offset=-50);
			PlotShapes(IIf(Sell, shapeDownArrow, shapeNone),colorWhite, 0,L, Offset=-45);
			
_SECTION_END();
#2

Your use of Plot() is not correct.
Plot does not return (plotted) array but number. Plot just plots array.

9

To further work with plotted arrays store them to variables before.

/* 
Objective:
1. add chart settings
2. add price
3. consider range high and low of previous 4 days
4. add lines to the highest and lowest points.
5. add signals when price crosses above or below the lines
*/

_SECTION_BEGIN("Price");
	SetChartOptions(0,chartShowArrows|chartShowDates); //Enables the X-axis to the chart
	Plot(Close,"Price",colorDefault,styleCandle);
_SECTION_END();


_SECTION_BEGIN("RHRL");
	RH = Ref(HHV(High, 4),-1);
	RL = Ref(LLV(Low, 4), -1);

	Buy = Cross(Close,RH);
	Sell = Cross(RL, Close);	

	Plot(RH,"RH", colorred);
	Plot(RL,"RL", colorGreen);	

	PlotShapes(IIf(Buy, shapeSquare, shapeNone),colorGreen, 0, H, Offset=-40);
	PlotShapes(IIf(Buy, shapeSquare, shapeNone),colorLime, 0,H, Offset=-50);
	PlotShapes(IIf(Buy, shapeUpArrow, shapeNone),colorWhite, 0,H, Offset=-45);
	PlotShapes(IIf(Sell, shapeSquare, shapeNone),colorRed, 0, L, Offset=-40);
	PlotShapes(IIf(Sell, shapeSquare, shapeNone),colorLime, 0,L, Offset=-50);
	PlotShapes(IIf(Sell, shapeDownArrow, shapeNone),colorWhite, 0,L, Offset=-45);
_SECTION_END();

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