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LOL!! That's what I get for staring at the computer screen too long.
Thanks!
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Silvarius" <silvarius@xxxx> wrote:
> the correct spelling of the function is "IIF()" and not "IFF()".
It's that
> simple ;-)
>
> Best regards
> Jérôme ULRICH
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : the_real_redleg [mailto:james.hall3@x...]
> Envoyé : vendredi 28 novembre 2003 16:12
> À : amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Objet : [amibroker] Why doesn't this work
>
>
> Greetings all,
>
> I'm trying to backtest a trailing stop that is only implemented
> after a certain profit target has been reach. I HAVE been trying
to
> figure out if/else looping which should be the answer according
to
> previous discussions here (really!). But reading through the AFL
> reference manual again this morning it seems to me that I should
be
> able to do it by using the IFF function to assign differing
results
> to variables that I then use within the applystop function. Here
is
> the code that is not working. (What I am want to do (for this
> example) is have a 50 pip stoploss, but once I have 30 pips of
> profit switch to a 20 pip trailing stop.)
>
> Buy = Cross(EMA(Close,12),EMA(Close,26));
> Short = Cross(EMA(Close,26),EMA(Close,12));
> Sell = Short;
> Cover = Buy;
> PositionSize=100000;
> Var1=iff(Close>=(BuyPrice+0.003),2,1);
> Var2=iff(Close<(BuyPrice+0.003),0.005,0.002);
> ApplyStop(Var1,2,Var2,True,False);
>
> I get a syntax error right at the first IFF.
>
> Why does this give me a syntax error?
>
> Is it possible to do what I'm attempting using this general
> approach? (I'll keep banging my head against the intricacies of
> if/else looping if I have to, but this would sure be a lot
simpler.
> Even easier would be an if/else function that works on arrays!)
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> James
>
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