@Wayne-Filkins said in indicator using a value from the data other than close:

I'm trying to use it like Fractals(self.close) and it's not working.

It requires high and low prices, therefore the whole data feed should be passed, not only close prices.

I bet @run-out should be banned also. ;) Otherwise it would be hundreds of helpers here, who cares that the question is not even close to the forum theme.

You will also need to cancel orders which were not executed after the period of waiting (probably one bar in your case).

If you issue buy stop order on each bar using Hcur of the bar as the stop price, than it will be executed on the next bar at the Hcur (or Onext if it will be a large gap). I assume this is what you want.

@Esa-J-Obande said in Hacking out a Breakout Strategy on Tick Data:

using the H & L of current bar

just wondering - how do you know the H and L of the current bar before the bar close?

Go thru the beginning of the docs and Quickstart, it will help you to understand bt internals. Otherwise you would be spending time on the things already made.

I am more than sure that fractal indicator returns true or false, that can be used for reference.

Looks like you are developing fractal indicator, which is already in the bt package, check out Docs - Indicator - References

LinePlotterIndicator,
Docs - Indicators - Usage

Terminal window should be open in the folder with the python script. Anyway, google how to run python script in VS Code.

Switch to terminal window in your VS Code, type python your_script_name.py, and work with the errors returned by python. Skip what pylintreturns you.