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Hi,
What's the problem?

I always use: sell = barssince (buy) == 3; (3 days for example)

Tom Supera





--- In amibroker@xxxx, Frank <fesnay@xxxx> wrote:
> 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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