[amibroker] Re: Enter Trades At Price of Previous Bar's High

["longarm61" <norm1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much.

Grant


--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Thomas Z." <tzg@xxx> wrote:
>
> With BuyPrice you can define the entry price. However, you have to 
be
> carefully, because basically you can define any price. Here is a 
simple way
> without slippage:
> 
> Buy = High > ref(High, -1);
> BuyPrice = max(ref(High, -1), Open);
> 
> Thomas Zmuck
> www.PatternExplorer.com
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
On Behalf
> Of longarm61
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:16 PM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [amibroker] Enter Trades At Price of Previous Bar's High
> 
> How would I have the backtester enter trades at the price of the 
> previous bar's high?  My buy rules have me buying when the current 
> bar's high is higher than the previous bar's high, and I'd like to 
> enter at the actual trigger price (previous bar's high) rather than 
> the current bars high or open or close, etc.
> 
> According to the manual, it looks like this can be done via 
> "BuyPrice" but this AFL-illiterate can't figure out exactly how to 
> code it.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Grant
> 
> 
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