Determine Candle Close

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Hello;

Is there a way I can determine an actual candle close as it happens?

Both iClose[] and Close[] don't do that.  


Any suggestions are welcome.


Thank you.

 
Lode Loyens: Is there a way I can determine an actual candle close as it happens?

You can't know when a candle closes. Only when a new tick arrives that starts a new bar is the old bar closed, and that tick could arrive almost at the end of a bar's duration.

For a new bar test, Bars is unreliable (a refresh/reconnect can change number of bars on chart), volume is unreliable (miss ticks), Price is unreliable (duplicate prices and The == operand. - MQL4 programming forum.) Always use time.
          MT4: New candle - MQL4 programming forum #3 (2014)
          MT5: Accessing variables - MQL4 programming forum #3 (2022)

I disagree with making a new bar function, because it can only be called once per tick (second call returns false). A variable can be tested multiple times.
          Running EA once at the start of each bar - MQL4 programming forum (2011)

 
Thank you William; much appreciated
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