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Good Idea Glen.
Another possible solution is to create an indicator that tracks the points
gained/lossed
based on your entry and exit conditions. I once did this for multiple
contracts testing,
and even had it calculate in points the loss for commissions and slippage.
Adam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Wallace" <gcwallace@xxxxxxxx>
To: "MetaStock listserver" <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: MS System Tester
> > Glen wrote:
> > > snip...Joe, you're correct that System Tester only permits entry and
> > > exit on the open or close (actually high and low, too, but that's not
> > > realistic). Would you expand on your volatility breakout entry's
> > > parameters, please? I think its coding is quite feasible.....snip
> >
> > =================
> >
> > Thanks Glen. Lets say I want to buy on a stop entry at the previous days
> > high... can you get the system tester to assume a stop entry if you use
> > HHV(high,1) as the breakout point? Thanks.
>
>
> Your entry would certainly be triggered, but System Tester would record
> the entry price as the open, high, low or close (depending on your System
> Tester settings). I suppose you could write a little indicator to plot
the
> actual entry price based on your buy stop parameter, then copy the
> indicator's data and the System Tester's trade detail to Excel and
> recompute the results in Excel. Kinda' labour intensive, but the
> accuracy might be necessary.
>
> Note that exits are also recorded at the O,H,L,C, unless you use the
> built-in stop function, which can be set to exit at the stop price.
>
> Regards.
>
>
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