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Andy,

Yes. You can have 4 apply stops active *at the same time*:
max loss, profit target, trailing, N-bar

Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "andy_kovacs" <andy_kovacs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 8:43 PM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: Confused ...


> Thanks D - 
> 
> Is it possible to have 3 applystop commands in the AFL code? One 
> that takes you out as an initial maxloss if the position goes bad 
> from the start, one that trails and one that takes you out if the 
> price reaches a profit target?
> 
> Andy
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "dingo" <dingo@xxxx> wrote:
> > The different values you see are:
> >  
> > Sell == 1   Sell generated by other than Applystop
> > Sell == 2   Stopped out by max. loss
> > Sell == 3   Stopped out by profit target
> > Sell == 4   Stopped out by trailing stop
> > 
> > Have you run a backtest and seen and entry in the trade column 
> like:
> > "Short (max loss)"?
> >  
> > The max loss is there because AB detected a 2 in the Sell array.
> >  
> > d
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Smith [mailto:andy_kovacs@x...] 
> > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 11:33 AM
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [amibroker] Confused ...
> > 
> > 
> > Hi folks - 
> >  
> > I found this code in the help file: Plot(Sell==4,"ApplyStop
> > Sell",colorRed,1|styleOwnScale);
> >  
> > I thought buy/sell/cover/short could only have 0 or 1 values. I 
> assume
> > if sell can have value 4 cover can too, and also 2 and 3 ... what 
> do
> > these values mean? I assume 1 is a trading system defined stop, 4 
> must
> > me applystop ... but 2 and 3?
> >  
> > 
> > Thanks
> >  
> > Andy
> > 
> > 
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