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Re: [amibroker] Re: How do you change stopTypeNBar to exit at the open of the exit day?



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No, I meant Auto Analysis Settings. If you still having problems you should send entire formula to support.

Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "holygrail168" <holygrail168@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 3:00 PM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: How do you change stopTypeNBar to exit at the open of the exit day?


> Hi Tomasz,
> 
> Are you talking about the Preferences within the Tool menu bar?
> 
> Or are you talking about the Settings button in the Automatic 
> Analysis where there is a tab for Long trades and Short Trades?
> 
> It allows me to choose open, close, high, low and average but I don't 
> understand why this setting exists since aren't we supposesd to set 
> Buy Prices or Sell prices in our formula?  I've set all the prices to 
> Open anyhow.  I've tried the backtester again but the n-bar stop 
> keeps exiting at the exit days high.
> 
> Is there some sort of code I need to include in my AFL formula to 
> tell it to use these settings within the Automatic Analysis tool?  
> 
> I've just lost a fair bit fo money because of this so I'd really like 
> to get to the bottom of it.  Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. I'm 
> using Amibroker 4.90
> 
> Thanks,
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@xxx> 
> wrote:
>>
>> It will exit at trade price as defined in preferences. If you set 
> trade price to OPEN (in the settings) it will exit on OPEN.
>> 
>> The line should read:
>> ApplyStop(stopTypeNBar,stopModeBars,2, 0, False, 2);
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Tomasz Janeczko
>> amibroker.com
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "holygrail168" <holygrail168@xxx>
>> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 2:21 PM
>> Subject: [amibroker] How do you change stopTypeNBar to exit at the 
> open of the exit day?
>> 
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > I'm trying to get the stopTypeNBar to work such that on the 3rd 
> day 
>> > (including trade day) after purchasing the share, it will exit on 
> the 
>> > market when it opens.
>> > 
>> > At the moment, my historical backtest keeps showing an exit price 
> which 
>> > is at the market's high and not the market opening.
>> > 
>> > This is the line of code which I'm using and I've read and re-
> read the 
>> > applystop AFL code description but I can't find anything which 
> allows 
>> > me to control the level at which we exit the N-bar stop.
>> > 
>> > ApplyStop(stopTypeNBar,stopModeBars,2, 1, False, 2);
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Please note that this group is for discussion between users only.
>> > 
>> > To get support from AmiBroker please send an e-mail directly to 
>> > SUPPORT {at} amibroker.com
>> > 
>> > For NEW RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENTS and other news always check DEVLOG:
>> > http://www.amibroker.com/devlog/
>> > 
>> > For other support material please check also:
>> > http://www.amibroker.com/support.html
>> > 
>> > Yahoo! Groups Links
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> >
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Please note that this group is for discussion between users only.
> 
> To get support from AmiBroker please send an e-mail directly to 
> SUPPORT {at} amibroker.com
> 
> For NEW RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENTS and other news always check DEVLOG:
> http://www.amibroker.com/devlog/
> 
> For other support material please check also:
> http://www.amibroker.com/support.html
> 
> Yahoo! Groups Links
> 
> 
> 
> 
>


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