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Re: [amibroker] Re:New indicator



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Hi,
How about - -

SellSignal = barsince(buy);
sell = iif(SellSignal == 5,1,0);

This would give you a sell signal on the fifth day since the buy.
Frank

At 03:33 PM 8/9/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>Let me make sure I understand this. If I want to sell on the 5th day after
>a buy occurs, I would use:
>sell=ref(buy,-5)?
>
>In order to sell after a certain condition is true for the two days prior, I
>would use:
>If Condition1 and Condition2, buy on open next day?
>
>How would I code this since it also references yesterday and the day before?
>
>Randy
>
>> And back to your request: if you want to sell after 5 bars from buy
>> what you really want is a NEGATIVE offset:
>> sell = ref( buy, -5 );
>> this is so because you want to generate a sell signal knowing that 5 bars
>ago
>> a buy occurred. You don't need to look into the future because buy aleady
>> happened.
>> Best regards,
>> Tomasz Janeczko
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