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Re: [amibroker] Re: ExRem and Short/Cover



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On 13/10/06, laster <laster@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  What does it mean in English? Equity(1,0) and why does it remove the
> surplus signals?
>
> TIA
>
> Jerry
>
>
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> *From:* amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Graham
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 12, 2006 20:25
> *To:* amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* Re: [amibroker] Re: ExRem and Short/Cover
>
>
>
> Signals are just signals, that have a bar complying with your conditions.
> You will get results of these in a scan and on the chart, but a backtest
> will ignore them.
> One way to remove surplus signals is to use the equity function, just add
> this before your plot statements, and after the trade conditions.
>
> Equity(1,0);
>
>
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> Graham
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>  On 13/10/06, *Charles J. Dudek* <trader@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Terry, thanks for the reply.  In my code I'm using:
>
> Sell=ExRem(Sell,Buy);
> Buy=ExRem(Buy,Sell);
> Cover=ExRem(Cover,Short);
> Short=ExRem(Short,Cover);
>
> The problem I'm having is generating a series of signals like sell,
> short, sell, short, without a previous buy or cover signal and I don't
> understand how that could happen.  I've tried different combinations
> like exrem(Buy,sell+cover), for example, and I'm still getting signals
> that don't make sense.  Any idea how to fix that or are there any
> programs that include different short/cover signals that I could copy?
>
> Chuck
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx , "Terry" <MagicTH@xxx> wrote:
> >
> > It doesn't matter if Sell = Short, or not. All the function does is
> > remove redundant signals AFTER Buy/Sell/Short/Cover has been processed.
> > This way you can PlotShapes using Buy/Sell/Short/Cover and you will only
>
> > see the signals you would take.
> >
> > Buy  = ExRem(Buy,Sell); //Removes redundant Buy signals
> > Sell = ExRem(Sell,Buy); //Removes redundant Sell signals.
> > Do the same for Short,Cover
> > --
> > Terry
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