Re: [amibroker] First trading day of the hear

[Graham <kavemanperth@xxxxxxxxx>]

You can do that without the IIF as any condition gives a 0 or 1 answer
(true/false)

Firstday = Year() != Ref(Year(),-1);

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On 1/5/06, Terry <MagicTH@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Firstday = IIf(Year() != Ref(Year(),-1),1,0);
> //Will be True on 1st trading day of the year
>
> I just did that since a friend thought it was a high probability day
> from VTOReport.com. They also said last trading day of the year was 90%
> up. It's not. It's 50/50 for the past 21 years on both Nasdaq100 and
> Russell2K and so is the first day of the year.
>
> You really want the last day of the year so you can Buy at the Close
> then and Sell the next day close. Be sure to set trade delays to 0 and
> prices to Close.
>
> Here's all the code. You don't need the Month() part, but it's needed
> for checking last day of the year (with some changes) and it still
> works.
>
> //BEGIN CODE
> "Test first day of the year";
> SetChartOptions(1,chartShowDates);
>
> Lastday = IIf(Month() != Ref(Month(),1) AND Year() !=
> Ref(Year(),1),1,0);
>
> Buy = Lastday;
> Sell = Ref(Lastday,-1);
> Short = Cover = 0;
>
> Plot(C,Name(),colorBlack,styleDots);
>
> Plot(Lastday,"Entry day",colorGreen,styleHistogram|styleOwnScale);
> Plot(Sell,"Exit day",colorRed,styleHistogram|styleOwnScale);
>
> //END CODE
> --
> Terry
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 20:45
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> Subject: [amibroker] First trading day of the hear
>
> How do I determine the first trading day of the year?
> I'd like to run an exploration to determine the gains on the first
> trading
> day of the past few years?
>
> thanks
>
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