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trailing trigger

Are there any trailing trigger algorithms out there? I am having trouble because I want to constantly compare the previous price to the current on a minute-by-minute basis. Any suggestions?

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If you're just looking to compare to the last minute, I think you could do something simple like the code below. If you're looking for a longer trailing window that updates every minute, that we don't have a quick tool for yet. I think we should though - I'll look more into it.

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Hello Yoni,

I modified Dan's algorithm to capture trailing price data in a numpy array. It's kinda rough, but if you look at the output log, you'll see that one can persist trailing price values. Just depends on what you need to do...I'd been interested in writing a function to return a trailing window of prices. Let me know what would work for you and I can give it a try.

Grant