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[amibroker] Re: Dates Question



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Anthony,

This works fine, thankyou. I've converted all the dates to Datenums, 
however, I have over 75 buy and 75 sell signals to include in this 
code (listed in Excel). Is there any shorthand way to include so many 
Datenums?

Steve

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Anthony Faragasso" <ajf1111@xxxx> 
wrote:
> Steve,
>  
> Try this: under settings tab...set delays to 0, positions to long 
only.
>  
> Buy=IIf(DateNum()==880109,1,0)OR IIf(DateNum()==911021,1,0);
> Sell=IIf(DateNum()==890612,1,0)OR IIf(DateNum()==921201,1,0);
>  
> Filter=1;
> AddColumn(Buy,"B");
> AddColumn(Sell,"S");
>  
>  
> -------Original Message-------
>  
> From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, March 23, 2003 04:25:17
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [amibroker] Dates Question
>  
> I've looked in the help files for this, but my programming skilla 
are 
> not good enough to solve this:
>  
> I want to backtest a series of Buy/Sell signals given on a website 
> (the actual method of deriving the signals is unknown). So, I want 
to 
> tell AB (for the current ticker:
>  
> Buy on 9/01/1988
> Sell on 12/06/1989
> Buy on 21/10/1991
> Sell on 1/12/1992
>  
> Etc.
>  
> Can anyone help to code this?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Steve
>  
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