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You could probably leverage the Flip function to make this easier on 
yourself.

e.g.

Buy = ...
Sell = ...
InLongPos = Flip(ExRem(Buy, Sell)) * 1000;

Mike

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "wavemechanic" <timesarrow@xxx> 
wrote:
>
> The iif() does not give the same result because ref(inlongpos, -1) 
== 0 except when the previous bar is a buy.  You can see exactly what 
is happening graphically with
> 
> buy = 
> sell = 
> inlongpos = iif(...
> plot(c, "", iif(buy, colorred, iif(sell, coloryellow, 
colorpalegreen)), stylebar);
> title = "inlongpos = " + inlongpos + "  ref(inlongpos..." + ref
(inlongpos...) + "  buy = " + buy + "  sell =" + sell
> 
> If you want the iif() approach to hold either a buy or sell value 
for each bar additional code is needed to create this condition.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Ton Sieverding 
>   To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>   Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:10 AM
>   Subject: Re: [amibroker] Something is different. But what ?
> 
> 
>   Sure. This of course if part of an AFL with Buy and Sell defined. 
Also an init for InLongPos
>   being set to zero as a starter. Again the ForLoop works fine. I 
checked that with following statement : AddColumn
(InLongPos,"Long",1); 
>   My problem is that I do not understand why the first statement 
does not give me the correct answer where the second does ...
> 
>   Regards, Ton.
> 
>     ----- Original Message ----- 
>     From: wavemechanic 
>     To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>     Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:55 PM
>     Subject: Re: [amibroker] Something is different. But what ?
> 
> 
> 
>     Is there more to the code?  Are you getting a 
syntax/initialization error?  How are you handling the case when i == 
1?
> 
>     Bill
> 
>     ----- Original Message ----- 
>     From: "amsiev" <ton.sieverding@xxx>
>     To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:01 AM
>     Subject: [amibroker] Something is different. But what ?
> 
> 
>     > Why is following AFL statement :
>     > 
>     > InLongPos = IIf(Buy==1,1000,IIf(Sell==1,0,Ref(InLongPos,-1)));
>     > 
>     > giving me a different result as following ForLoop :
>     > 
>     > for ( i=1; i<BarCount; i++ )
>     > {
>     > if (Buy[i]==1)
>     > InLongPos[i] = 1000;
>     > else
>     > {
>     > if (Sell[i]==1)
>     > InLongPos[i] = 0;
>     > else
>     > InLongPos[i] = InLongPos[i-1];
>     > }
>     > }
>     > 
>     > The result I am getting from the ForLoop is correct. The first
>     > statement gives me a wrong answer. I want to get 1000 in 
InLongPos
>     > after Buy and before Sell ... When testing the statement in 
Excel
>     > it works fine with : =IF(A6=1;1000;IF(B6=1;0;C5)) ...
>     > 
>     > What's wrong ?
>     > 
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