**FOREX, 1H Chart, //version=3 pinescript**

I'm still new to Pinescript but I noticed that using `close` or `open` returns data that is not the current close or open price. Even using `close[1]` returns an amount completely different than the closing of that previous candle.

Why is this? Am I interpreting this data incorrectly?

In the research I've done, I came across this article: <https://www.tradingcode.net/tradingview/operators/history-referencing-operator/>: 

> 
> Technically, the history referencing operator doesn’t return a single
>  value but returns a series of values with a certain offset, even
>  though we generally think that the history referencing operator
>  accesses the nth element.
> 
> 
> This means that, for example, `close[5]` **doesn’t return a single**
> **closing price but a series of closing prices** that are equal to the
>  closing price of 5 bars ago.
> 
> 
> 

That bold statement above - *"A series of closing prices"*; does this mean that `close[5]` itself is not the 5th candle's closing price?

[![enter image description here](https://www.tradingcode.net/static/tradingview/operators/tradingview-history-referencing-operator-3.png)](https://www.tradingcode.net/static/tradingview/operators/tradingview-history-referencing-operator-3.png)

If that's the case, then how would I go about displaying the current close price for that candle with something like: 

`strategy.entry("SHORT", strategy.short, comment=tostring(close[1]) )`