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Re: symbols that wanna be indicators....



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Actually this is a trading filter, all buy/sell arrows
which remain after you move the moving average
are the profitable ones. The others are there to make
it look more scientific

;-)

-Neal.

At 08:37 PM 6/30/98 -0400, you wrote:
>If you don't have anything better to do and want to humor me, try the
>following and see if the same thing happens to YOU:
>
>For this experiment you can use an existing chart, but I don't
>necessarily recomend it just yet.
>To be safe,
>Create a new chart. (file/new/chart)  ...Or just a copy of an existing
>chart.(window/new window)
>Now plot an indicator such as a moving average on it.
>Plot 10 or so buy arrows.  Just make sure that each one of the arrows is
>touching the MA.
>Now drag the MA to an inner window.
>On my system, 4 of the arrows went along for the ride with the MA.  What
>a hoot!. :-)
>
>That means that if you delete the indicator, some arrows will also be
>deleted.  It seems that other symbols and trendlines are not immune.   I
>wanted to delete the original indicator (but keep the arrows), then plot
>a different indicator (or even the same indicator with a different time
>period) for a comparison study.  On the original chart I had hand placed
>over 100 buy/sell arrows after many hours work.  When I deleted the
>indicator, I noticed some arrows had disappeared.  Fortunately I noticed
>it right away and was able to use the "undo" feature which saved me a
>lot of time and aggravation.
>
>Anybody else been through this???
>
>Ken
>
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