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Graham,

Worked perfect. Never thought to study the status function.

Jim

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Graham" <gkavanagh@xxxx> wrote:
> Jim 
> Barindex() is related to the database starting at 0 for the first 
bar. 
> 
> Try using Status with 
> 
> "firstbarinrange" and "lastbarinrange". They return 1 (or True) on 
the
> first/last bar of analysis range. 
> 
> "barinrange" - returns 1 when current bar is within current auto-
analysis
> From-To range  
> 
> "firstbarintest" and "lastbarintest" - similar 
to "firstbarinrange" and
> "lastbarinrange" but they return the settings of last 
BACKTEST/OPTIMIZATION
> and intermediate scans/explorations do not affect them 
> 
> Depending on what you are needing 
> 
> Cheers,
> Graham
> http://groups.msn.com/ASXShareTrading
> http://groups.msn.com/FMSAustralia 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jwilsonp2a [mailto:jimnwilson@x...] 
> Sent: Saturday, 22 November 2003 8:57 AM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [amibroker] questions on barindex() and AA results 
display window
> 
> 
> When running backtests with a to: and from: date, I thought that 
the 
> barindex() would return 0 on the first bar of the test, yet it is 
> returning the actual bar number of the database. I have 2600 bars 
of 
> TC2K data, and since my backtest started on 1/3/00, I am getting 
> indexes of around 1600 or so. I would like to know how to 
determine 
> that I am in the first bar of the test. It's easy if the stock 
> didn't trade until after 1/3/00, then barindex()==0, but for the 
> other cases, I am going nuts trying to figure out how to know I am 
> in the first bar. Latching variables with Flip doesn't seem to 
work 
> on the first bar; I guess Flip looks for a rising edge of false to 
> true and doesn't work if the condition is already true on the 
first 
> bar.
> 
> As for the AA results window, occasionally I get horizontal lines 
in 
> the rows right in the middle of the cells. Anyone else seen that?
> 
> This is a year old Dell XPS8250 with WinXP pro; AB is 4.40.
> 
> Thanks, Jim
> 
> 
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