Re: Metastock - how to capture closing price on buy signal?

["Bob Hellen" <A2099767@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Jim, I guess I'll have to wait for Equis to develop a feature that
does it. I appreciate you offering help though.  Bob

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> From: Jim Greening <JimGinVA@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Metastock - how to capture closing price on buy signal?
> Date: 03 July 1999 20:31
> 
> Bob,
>       I don't know of any way to automate it since if you set a value
like
> SigC based on a metastock buy signal it will reset every time the
condition
> is met which can happen several times before you get a sell signal.
> However, you can set a condition like
>        SigC:= xxxx;
> in your formula.  Then you would have to manually substitute the value of
> the close on the date you get the signal.  That means you have to
remember
> to do it and won't be able to do any meaningful back testing, so it's not
a
> very good work around.
> 
> JimG
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob Hellen <A2099767@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 7:06 AM
> Subject: Re: Metastock - how to capture closing price on buy signal?
> 
> 
> > Thanks Angel but the problem is I don't know what the value of "xxxx"
at
> > the time of writing the formula. What I need is a way of getting
Metastock
> > to remember the value of C when a buy signal is triggered. I cannot
find a
> > way so far.  Bob
> >
> > ----------
> > > From: Angel Ibarra <ibarra@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: Metastock - how to capture closing price on buy signal?
> > > Date: 02 July 1999 13:49
> > >
> > > Did you try Ref(c,+xxxx)?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Angel
> > >
> > > Bob Hellen wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm a relatively new user of Metastock 6.52 and want to improve my
> > trading
> > > > rules using the system tester. I want to compare subsequent price
> > movements
> > > > with the closing price when my system last triggered a buy signal
but
> > can't
> > > > find a way of capturing the closing price at that date. (it isn't
as
> > simple
> > > > as looking for "value when" the last occurrence of that rule
occurred
> > > > -there may have been several since I entered long). Does anyone
know
> > how I
> > > > can do this?  Ideas much appreciated.
> >
> 
>