[amibroker] Re: Addtocomposite - counting totals in a watchlist

["droskill" <droskill@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks - that's helpful - I'm just trying to figure out how to
incorporate that into a scan without it executing on every symbol
everytime.

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Joe Landry" <jelandry@xxx> wrote:
>
> droskil
> Here's one way but I think it's going to depend on what operation
you're in. Is it AA, then you can count each symbol as you step
through it.  If you're using the custom backtester then I don't know. 
> 
> Here's a clip from years past. Pull the list of symbols then count
them within the FOR loop. 
> 
> JOE
> 
> 
> 
> list = CategoryGetSymbols( categoryWatchlist, 63 );
> 
> pop=0;
> 
> for( i = 0; ( sym = StrExtract( list, i ) ) != ""; i++ )
> 
>    {
> 
> pop=POP+1;
> 
> }
> 
> Plot(pop,"",5,2);
> 
> to plot the population pop of a WL63. The result will be a flat line,
> 
> which is not correct when you have missing data, shorter or longer
> 
> histories.
> 
> Dimitris Tsokakis
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: droskill 
>   To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>   Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 1:41 PM
>   Subject: [amibroker] Addtocomposite - counting totals in a watchlist
> 
> 
>   Hey all - is there anyway to count the number of symbols in a
>   watchlist? I want to make an AddtoComposite-created index a % rather
>   than a hard number. Is there a function to do this?
> 
>   Thanks!
>



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