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Owen,
It might help if I could see your exact code.
Adam Hefner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Owen Davies" <owen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 7:31 PM
Subject: Odd problem in trying to write an indicator
> Maybe I'm doing something wrong...
>
> For a while now, I've been playing with putting
> Bollinger Bands on oscillators, then manipulating them
> so that the upper and lower bands represent values of
> 100 and 0, while the oscillator moves up and down between
> (and occasionally above or below) them. No Holy Grail there,
> but I find it neater and easier to read than simply throwing the
> bands on the oscillator graph. Until recently, I was doing it
> in SuperCharts, and it worked okay, save for coping with
> SC's intolerance for divide-by-zero errors. No problems
> now that I've returned to Metastock, either.
>
> Until now.
>
> Today I tried to average three of these things, and it
> just doesn't work. The indicators (based on the RSI)
> give the expected wiggly lines. Add them up, and divide
> by three, and what I get is a constant, a nice, straight
> line! In fact, simply adding them up produces a constant
> -85. Using the Add() function unstead of a simple plus
> produces the same thing -- not that I doubted it would.
>
> Anyone have any idea what's going on here? Or how to
> get out of it.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Owen Davies
>
>
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