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WHAT TS script ?

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Sidney Kaiser <s9kaiser@xxxx> wrote:
> Still struggling with trying to convert that Tradestation 
script....  ;(
> 
> A few basic elements seem to crop up over and over again.  The 
problem is I 
> am a trader not a programmer, and I spend huge amounts of time 
spinning my 
> wheels trying to generate or adapt code to do fairly simple tasks.  
Here 
> are a couple samples.
> 
> 
> (1)  IF condition then a=b		// trying to use IIF , would 
that be: a = 
> IIF(condition, b, a);  ie: the true condition has a new value 
but ?? on the 
> value to be used for the false condition.
> 
> 
> (2)  IF condition then a=c  	// Where the value for "a" needs to 
persist 
> until it is changed by the program.  Does that involve the use of 
> ValueWhen(condition, c);   and I would think that the condition 
needs to 
> change to a cross  function to pick up the first value where 
condition is 
> true.  Multi part question I guess, but the details are important 
to poor 
> programmers like myself.
> 
> 
> (3)  How do I set up a counter in AFL to keep track of the number 
of 
> occurrences of some condition.
> 	IF condition then increment counter		// Again the 
value of the counter 
> needs to persist until it is used perhaps many bars later and then 
is 
> probably reset.
> 
> TIA
> Sid
> 
> 
> 
> 
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