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[amibroker] Re: How do you get a value for ATR?



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Add this to your script: 
SETOPTION("PriceBoundChecking", FALSE);

dale b

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dickie Paria" <babui@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> Terry & Graham - thankyou very much.  The "Plot" command worked
just 
> fine.  While backtesting the simple formula below (and using 
> the "Plot" command to figure out ATR), I realised that if 
> the 'BuyPrice' was outside the High-Low range of the bar, then the 
> backtest took the H or L as the 'BuyPrice'.  
> 
> How do I get the 'BuyPrice' to only function, during backtesting, 
> when it falls whithin the H-L of a bar and skip all other bars ?
> 
> While searching the 'help' index, I came across this - 
> 
> "During back-testing AmiBroker will check if the values you
assigned 
> to buyprice, sellprice, shortprice, coverprice fit into high-low 
> range of given bar. If not, AmiBroker will adjust it to high price 
> (if price array value is higher than high) or to the low price (if 
> price array value is lower than low)".
> 
> Again - the qts is - how do I disable the above, so it only
backtests 
> a trade that falls in the H-L range of the bar?





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