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@yahoo.com.au>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com>
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@xxxxxxxxxps.com, "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@...>
>> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com>
>> 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
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>> >
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>> >
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>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>
>
>
> 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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