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Hi,
this is a good workaround.
Thanks for the idea!
----- Original Message -----
From: "b519b" <b519b@xxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 5:03 PM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: Advances in TA: Event flags
> There is an effective work around to do this by making an artificial
> ticker for each stock and then using the Foreign() call for testing.
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> For example, for IBM create a ticker IBM_Flags
> Put your info into the various price and volume field. That will
> give you 6 data items. If you want 10 fields, divide the O, H, L, C
> fields in half using the decimal point. It is easy to use AB's
> Fraction and Integer calls to get what you want.
>
> If you need a lot of data fields, you can "pack" the data into each
> digit of the price and volume fields. And then use AB's Fraction and
> Integer calls with appropriate division and multiplication to get
> the data items separated. Theoretically you should be able to get 6
> digits in the price fields and 9 in the volume and OI fields. But
> for safety you can use 5 from each. Also, you can pack 9 digits into
> the volume and oi fields, but you can only extract 6 digits since AB
> usings changes the data in these fields to decimal data (only 6
> significant digits) to do the multiplication and division functions.
> Even with just using 5 in each of the 6 regular fields, that gives
> you 30 data fields, each with a range of 0 to 9.
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