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Ton,
I had to move COMHCY7 to another indicator because COMH-BASICS reached its
limit of 20 variables and shut me down. That's why it was in the indicator
with COMHACR. The reason it wouldn't plot was because I made a typo in
moving some indicators around after I had tested them. The COMHCYY variable
had a typo in it. Fixed that and everything worked fine.
I also went through and deleted a bunch of old stuff to clean things out.
I'll continue to delete historical indicators.
The latest problem that I'm working on is that I have several indicators
that appear to calculate properly, up to a point. What I mean is that the
output of my Clipper program and MS' calculations are in total agreement,
except for the last two days. The calculations agree to 4 decimal places
from 12/10/99 to 8/9/00. For 8/10/00 and 8/11/00, the MS results are
slightly off. For the life of me I can't figure out what's happening here.
I'm totally confused (again). To insure complete compatibility I downloaded
my MS data into a Clipper database. This was to insure that both test data
sets were identical. I went back and checked the input data and they were
in agreement. Tomorrow, I'm going to go back and verify each individual
variable again from the beginning to try to figure out what's happening.
It's frustrating to say the least. Every time I try to switch something
into MS it turns into a hernia provoking exercise. Once I finish the
conversion, I'm happy, it's just getting there that causes me all these
problems.
Thanks,
Guy
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark,
professionals built the Titanic.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of A.J. Maas
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 5:15 PM
To: Metastock-List
Subject: Re: Another calculation question
The formula contains an assigning of the variable COMHACR and now this
variable contains a call to COMHCY7, which neither is a valid previously
assigned
variable COMHCY7 , nor is it possibly a call on a valid function COMHCY7.
Adjusted for this, then the below will plot :
COMHACR:= (
FmlVar("COMH-BASICS","COMHCRR") +
FmlVar("COMH-BASICS","COMHCYY") +
FmlVar("COMH-BASICS","COMHCY4") +
FmlVar("COMH-BASICS","COMHCR4") +
FmlVar("COMH-BASICS","COMHCR7") +
FmlVar("COMH-BASICS","COMHCY7")
)
/ 3;
COMHACR
Limitations are explained in the manual+help
-20 digits max for name positions/variable(p229)
-20 functions max for assigned variables/indicator(p229)
-1000 indicators max for custom indicators/PC(p284)
Regards,
Ton Maas
ms-irb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Homepage http://home.planet.nl/~anthmaas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Tann" <grt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Metastock User Group" <metastock-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: zondag 20 augustus 2000 8:30
Subject: Another calculation question
> All and Ton, Martin, et al:
>
> Well, I'm moving along with my programming thanks to Ton, Martin and all
> other contributors, but I've reached an impasse trying to get to one of my
> more difficult calculations. I am debugging each one of my calculations
and
> plotting its individual result in MS and comparing it to a debugging
program
> I've written in Clipper. I feel that if I debug each individual
> calculation, when I get to the end, everything should work.
>
> Well, that worked for while, until I reached the following calculation.
> Something about the best laid plans of mice and men. :)
>
> COMHACR:= ( FmlVar("COMH-BASICS","COMHCRR") +
> FmlVar("COMH-BASICS","COMHCYY") + FmlVar("COMH-BASICS","COMHCY4") +
> FmlVar("COMH-BASICS","COMHCR4") + FmlVar("COMH-BASICS","COMHCR7") +
> COMHCY7 ) / 3;
> COMHACR;
>
> I have previously debugged COMHCRR, COMHCYY, COMHCY4, COMHCR4, COMHCR7,
and
> COMHCY7 and they all calculate properly and will plot if I set it up.
This
> calculation simply adds the six values and divides the total by 3.
Nothing
> sophisticated at all. I then moved this variable calculation to another
> blank indicator to try it. It still didn't work, so I then tried to
comment
> out everything but one of the components and that didn't work either
> (COMHCRR) but when I go back to that variable and set it up to plot, it
> works fine. I'm terminally confused here.
>
> The only thing I can think is that I've exceeded MS programming
> capabilities, but you would think I would at least get an error message.
I
> mean we're not talking brain surgery here, so I assume that I'm doing
> something stupid. :) For instance, when I reached the point that I had
> exceeded the calculations one indicator can support (something about
binary
> but I didn't write it down) I moved a bunch of the calculations to another
> indicator.
>
> Is there a limit on the number of indicators that you can program in MS?
I
> wouldn't think I'm near any limit, but??? I have a bunch of old
> calculations and system testers out there. I hadn't planned on it, but
> should I go out and delete them to make room for the newer stuff?
>
> TIA,
>
> Guy
>
> Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark,
> professionals built the Titanic.
>
>
>
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