RE: Problem: "Sell three days after bought...."

["Yngvi Hardarson" <hardy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nicholas!

Try this:

Make the minimum move for the inactivity stop a big number, e.g. 9999 and
use 3 for periods.

Best regards,
Yngvi
hardy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Nicholas Kormanik
Sent: 8. september 1999 08:40
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Problem: "Sell three days after bought...."


Another plea for help....  In the System Tester, the enter long signal I'm
trying to study is actually a complicated **set** of signals.

The exit long signal I want, just for testing purposes, is to "sell three
days after buying."

Hey, folks, seems pretty simple, doesn't it?  But MetaStock wants to make
life difficult.

If the enter long signal were one isolated indicator crossing, I could
simply use the ref(signal, +3), to exit the trade.  But....  I have a
complicated **set** of signals for entry, not one isolated indicator
crossing.

Now, how about using ref(**set**, +3)?  Seems a simple solution.
Unfortunately, MetaStock doesn't apparently allow one to name a **set** of
indicators like that; instead the System Tester seems to want me to state
each sub-component separately, and do the ref(sub-signal, +??) for each.  It
becomes really convoluted and messy.

Do you folks have any help on this one?  Hopefully there's an easier way.

Thanks,
Nicholas