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[amibroker] Re: AFL for Buy statement



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Thank you for the explanation.  I guess I need to learn a little more to get it to work properly.

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, dingo <waledingo@xxx> wrote:
>
> You're looking for the SUM mentioned above to == 5 - the number of days that
> the condition was true. each bar for which the condition was true has a 1 in
> it.
> 
> d
> 
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Rick <rickbw@xxx> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the help.  I attempted to use the suggested "sum" but it adds
> > the days together as a calculation (sum of last 5 days for the array).
> >
> > What I really want is to find that a condition existed for the last 5 days
> > (i.e MACD was below 0 for each of the last 5 days).
> >
> > I browsed thru the AFL's - should I use a nested IIF statement?
> >
> > Thx!
> >
> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Mike" <sfclimbers@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sum() will do the job. But, Cross is not the right operator to use. Cross
> > is only true on the bar of the actual cross. You stated that you wanted to
> > verify that the indicator was above 0 for all the days of the period.
> > Therefore, just use the ">" operator within the Sum function.
> > >
> > > MyCalculation = ...;
> > > Buy = Sum(MyCalculation > 0, 5) == 5;
> > >
> > > To add a second condition, you will need to use an AND. You can break the
> > logic up into as many statements as you like. But, in the end the Buy will
> > be "x AND y" if both conditions are required to be true.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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