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Re: [amibroker] When do my posts show up? --the real help question



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Terry,

Thanks, that did the trick.  I had not gone into the backtester yet -- 
was just trying
to learn the simple functions first.

Dennis

On Aug 23, 2006, at 11:24 PM, Terry wrote:

Dennis,

> I copied and pasted. Works for me.
> My guess is your AA settings.
> Go into the backtester.
> Pick Settings.
> On the tab that comes up change your setting from Long only to Long &
> Short.
> --
> Terry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Dennis Brown
> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 14:05
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [amibroker] When do my posts show up? --the real help
> question
>
> Since my posts seems to be going out now, I will try this again.
>
> I cut and pasted the following AFL from one of the examples somewhere
> --I can't find it again at present, so I will include the AFL with
> this post. I have tried to make it run, but it has a problem that I
> can not figure out --perhaps I do not understand something. The AFL
> allows you to use the Parameters to manually set buy/sell/short/cover
> points on your chart and shows the equity curve. It works fine for
> buy and sell. However, any short or cover always shows as a redundant
> signal no matter what order I put them in. I have gone over the
> syntax and can not find anything that is not symetrical to the
> buy/sell cases. I am not sure if it a problem with the AFL, or with
> me. I would appreciate any help, or just testing to see if it works
> for someone else.
>
> Thanks,
> Denn