Re: [amibroker] Simple Buy on Close, Sell on Open not as expected

[Keith McCombs <kmccombs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anthony --
Thanks for your effort.  I tried your exact code (copy and paste).  It still skips every other day.

Also, I reduced the code to absolute minimum as:
Buy = 1;
BuyPrice = Close;
Sell = Ref(Buy, -1);
SellPrice = Open;

Been through my settings many times.  Still the same.


BTW, I'm running 5.26beta.

-- Keith


Anthony Faragasso wrote:

 

Keith

 

give this a try:

 

Settings window:

 

allow same bar exit is enabled

all stops are disabled

 

In the trades window of the settings I set up the trades as follows probably do not need it :

buy=close, delay 0;sell=open, delay 0

short=close, delay 0 ,cover = open, delay 0

// BuyClose SellOpen Daily.afl

SetTradeDelays(0,0,0,0);

Buy = Ref(Close,-1);

BuyPrice = ValueWhen(Buy,Ref(C,-1));

Sell = Open;

SellPrice = Open;

Short = Cover = False; // long only strategy

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Keith McCombs

To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com

Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 1:09 AM

Subject: [amibroker] Simple Buy on Close, Sell on Open not as expected

 

Just fooling around with a very simple idea, but can't get the code to work.
The idea is to sell at close of every day, hold over night, and sell at open the following day.
Code below sorta works, but skips every other day.  For example:
Day 1, buy on close; Day2, sell on open.
Day 3, buy on close; Day4, sell on open.
etc.
But I can't make it buy on close of days 2, 4, etc.
Tried "Allow same bar exit" in settings, but that makes it sell the same day that it buys, which is wrong.

// BuyClose SellOpen Daily.afl
SetTradeDelays(0,1,0,0);  // has no effect
Buy = Close;
BuyPrice = Close;
Sell = Open;
SellPrice = Open;
Short = Cover = False; // long only strategy
Buy = ExRem(Buy, Sell);  // has no effect
Sell = ExRem(Sell, Buy);  // has no effect

Well?
-- Keith