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[amibroker] Re: Newbie question - short trades



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Aha!  Thanks Graham!

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Graham" <gkavanagh@xxxx> wrote:
> Check the AA settings for General settings "Long", "Short", "Long 
and Short"
> Just select Short
> 
> Cheers,
> Graham
> http://e-wire.net.au/~eb_kavan/
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trageley [mailto:trageley@x...] 
> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 6:17 AM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [amibroker] Newbie question - short trades
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> Hi All,
> 
> I have a simple question that I couldn't figure out from the 
> documentation.  If I'm setting up a backtesting strategy where I 
> want to place short trades, I cannot seem to get my trades to show 
> up.  The editor specified that Buy and Sell signals must be 
defined, 
> so I just set Buy = 0 and Sell = 0 b/c I don't want to place long 
> trades - I just want to define Short and Cover.  Unfortunately, 
this 
> didn't work.  Can anyone tell me how I work define a system that 
> defines short trades?
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> tom
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> Check AmiBroker web page at:
> http://www.amibroker.com/
> 
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